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Vantage Data Centers · Shackelford County, Texas

Not built yet. Every figure below is what it would take and emit at the capacity its owners have announced.

Water — consumed, not returned

Where the water comes from

Municipal potable supply

Cooling

Closed-loop liquid

Basis

Modelled from cooling design — WUE 0.08 L/kWh

Air — what the stacks emit

Where it burns

ERCOT — Texas + 20% turbines on the site itself

Generation mix

Gas 40 · Wind 24 · Solar 11 · Coal 13 · Nuclear 9

Emitted at the fence line

27% of this site's criteria pollution

CO₂e

4,530 kt/yr — climate, not air quality

Who wanted it

Who asked for it

Undisclosed hyperscale customers; Vantage has said the campus is substantially pre-leased

Who approved it

Shackelford County abatements; ERCOT interconnection; Texas SB6 (2025) large-load curtailment obligations apply

What it serves

Hyperscale AI tenants — leases signed, tenant names withheld

IT capacity

0 MW running of 1,400 MW announced

A $25B, 1.4 GW campus on ranch land an hour from Abilene. Texas SB6 now lets ERCOT order loads this size to curtail during emergencies — the first US law treating data centers as dispatchable demand.

Where it is

32.7500°, -99.3500°

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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. Full method.