Not built yet. Every figure below is what it would take and emit at the capacity its owners have announced.
Water — consumed, not returned
Taken from the basin4,524M gal/yr
Evaporated on site1,810M gal
Making the power2,714M gal
Basin stressHigh
Where the water comes from
Municipal potable supply
Cooling
Closed-loop (as proposed)
Basis
Modelled from cooling design — WUE 0.20 L/kWh
Air — what the stacks emit
Nitrogen oxides15,413t/yr
Sulphur dioxide103t/yr
Fine particulates1,028t PM2.5
Health damages$714M/yr
Where it burns
Behind-the-meter gas turbines + 60% turbines on the site itself
Generation mix
On-site simple/combined-cycle gas, ~100%
Emitted at the fence line
60% of this site's criteria pollution
CO₂e
15,927 kt/yr — climate, not air quality
Who wanted it
Who asked for it
No confirmed anchor tenant; developers have marketed to hyperscalers and the federal government
Who approved it
NRC early site permit application filed 2025 for four AP1000 reactors; Texas Tech land agreement; ERCOT interconnection request
What it serves
Proposed AI campus — no tenants confirmed
IT capacity
0 MW running of 4,000 MW announced
Advertised as an 11 GW 'HyperGrid' combining nuclear, gas and solar on ranch land in the Panhandle. Nothing at this scale has been permitted, let alone built; included to show the top end of what is currently being claimed.
new gas plant built for itno tenant namedspeculative
Water and air figures are modelled from disclosed capacity, not measured — site-level
error is roughly ±40%. Diesel backup generators are not counted, so on-site figures are floors.
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