A Texas company co-founded by former U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry says it will build “the world’s largest Artificial Intelligence complex” in a “first-of-its-kind, behind-the-meter ‘HyperGrid’ campus” near Amarillo.
Dallas-based Fermi America on June 26 announced that it will formally begin work July 4 on a proposed 5,770-acre project that will house 18 million square feet of AI data center development to be fully operational by 2032.
Working “in partnership” with the Texas Tech University System, the company said the campus will generate up to 11 gigawatts of electricity—enough to power 8.2 million homes, equivalent to New York City’s demand—fueled by “the largest nuclear power complex in America” supported by “the nation’s biggest combined-cycle natural gas project, solar power, and battery storage.”…