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GW Ranch (Pacifico Energy)

GW Ranch is an AI data center campus developed by Pacifico Energy in Texas, Fort Stockton. 1 GW of capacity has been announced; none is energized yet. The gap is what this page tracks: what is claimed versus what is actually built, each figure dated and sourced.

Permitted · Pacifico Energy · Private land · ERCOT · Fort Stockton, Texas, United States

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Capacity: announced vs energized

Contracted
not recorded
Under construction
not recorded
Energized
not recorded

Announced-to-energized gap: 1 GW. Every figure below is a single dated, sourced claim. Current best per series resolves by evidence tier, then date. See the methodology.

35th-largest announced of 97 tracked campuses68th percentile announced-to-energized gap≈ 810,000 homes of power at full announced capacity (basis)

Promised online: 2027. 15 months away. Claimed by Pacifico Energy (source).

GW Ranch (Pacifico Energy) capacity claims
Source
Announced1 GW2027-06-01reportedpress release
Announced7.65 GW2026-01-30reportedpress release
Announced5 GW2026-01-26reportedpress release

Construction evidence

Dated satellite imagery of the site itself, oldest to newest, with the campus milestones that landed in each window. This is what the site looked like from orbit while announcements, permits, and energizations were dated into our ledger, so bare land, grading, and building mass tell their own story alongside the paper trail. Sentinel-2 true color, 10 m resolution, cloud-free scenes; click any frame to expand it.

Delivery paceAnnounced Q2 2027 · not yet energized

2018-06-25Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2018
2020-08-13Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2020
2022-05-30Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2022
2024-06-23Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2024
2025-08-07Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2025

Dated Sentinel-2 imagery, gated to hand-verified site coordinates. Milestones synthesized from the campus's own capacity ledger, financial claims, and lifecycle events; each chip links to its source. How we source and verify it: satellite construction evidence.

Key facts

permitted

Lifecycle

1 GW

Announced

0 GW

Energized

Pacifico Energy

Developer

United States

Location

ERCOT

Grid

private land

Land

1 GW

Announced-to-energized gap

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The story of GW Ranch (Pacifico Energy)
Grid
ERCOT · Off grid by design: no ERCOT interconnection. The campus runs as a private grid, and the air permit authorises generation that serves only the on-site load, with no ability to sell power to or draw power from the local utility system.

Every figure is one row in the ledger below with its source. Derived rows are pure arithmetic on the rows above (not new claims). Absent lines mean the fact isn't on record yet.

In clusterTexas(607)

The deal

developer
Pacifico Energy · Permit holder Pacifico GW LLC
utility
Pacifico Energy · Owns/operates private island grid

Power

Power source
mixed
Grid operator
ERCOT
Interconnection
Off grid by design: no ERCOT interconnection. The campus runs as a private grid, and the air permit authorises generation that serves only the on-site load, with no ability to sell power to or draw power from the local utility system.
Water
Self-supplying, per the developer. Pacifico says the power generation system is self-sufficient and will itself produce water the data center can use. Local coverage notes the general move to closed-loop cooling, which still needs a large volume on initial fill and periodic refills. No water source, volume or permit figure has been published for the campus.

GW Ranch gas generation, 7.65 GW gas, Announced. TCEQ air permit issued for up to 7.65 GW gas turbines

GW Ranch gas-fired generation, 7.65 GW gas, Permitted. Gas capacity authorized by TCEQ air permit; fed by dedicated high-capacity pipeline to the Waha Hub in the Permian Basin.

GW Ranch battery energy storage, 1.80 GW storage, Announced. 1.8 GW battery energy storage.

GW Ranch solar, 0.75 GW solar, Announced. 750 MWac solar generation.

The Texas (ERCOT) grid demand right now: 54.4 GW (EIA-930, 2026-09-27 08:00). GW Ranch's announced 1 GW would be 1.8% of the grid's current load.

County water status: Moderate drought (D1) in Pecos County, week of 2026-09-22 (US Drought Monitor). Data centers are large water users for cooling; this is the neutral local water picture.

Why here

GW Ranch sits on private land in Texas, Fort Stockton. It connects to the ERCOT grid, draws on mixed power, interconnection is Off grid by design: no ERCOT interconnection. The campus runs as a private grid, and the air permit authorises generation that serves only the on-site load, with no ability to sell power to or draw power from the local utility system.. This siting summary is composed from the record's held fields, not speculation; see methodology.

Regulatory paper trail

The filings and rules on record for this site and its jurisdiction, most recent first. Each is a sourced, dated artifact you can follow to the primary document.

NHTSA Recall: Zoox Robotaxi Software Update for Heavy Smoke Visibility (26E044)operational restriction · 2026-07-15 · United States

Timeline

  2. Aug 2026
    capacity changed
    announced: 7.65 to 1
  3. Sep 2026
    Current: Permitted

Sources

33c65299-63d4-4b41-8137-93839680e5f3 · Tracked with DEPLOY's verified-vs-claimed methodology. Every term is defined in the glossary. Announced numbers are claims, not built capacity.

Head-to-head

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Common questions

What is GW Ranch (Pacifico Energy)?
GW Ranch (Pacifico Energy) is an AI data center campus tracked on the DEPLOY registry, located in Fort Stockton. DEPLOY records its capacity as a dated, sourced ledger: announced gigawatts versus actually energized gigawatts, never a press-release total.
How much power will GW Ranch (Pacifico Energy) use?
GW Ranch (Pacifico Energy) has 1 GW of announced capacity on the DEPLOY registry; no energized capacity is yet recorded. Each figure is individually dated and sourced.
Who is building GW Ranch (Pacifico Energy)?
Pacifico Energy is recorded as a party to GW Ranch (Pacifico Energy) on the DEPLOY registry.
Is GW Ranch (Pacifico Energy) operating yet?
As of the most recent verification on the DEPLOY registry, GW Ranch (Pacifico Energy) is permitted. DEPLOY tracks the lifecycle from announced through energized, so the current state reflects sourced evidence, not the original announcement.
How verified is the data on GW Ranch (Pacifico Energy)?
A human editor has reviewed this record for the indexed registry. Every capacity figure is an append-only, dated claim resolved to the highest-evidence tier; superseded claims are kept but excluded from the current view.

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DEPLOY. (2026). GW Ranch (Pacifico Energy): AI data center campus record. Retrieved September 27, 2026, from https://registry.deploy.report/datacenters/pacifico-gw-ranch-pecos-texas

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