Project dossier · Fort Stockton (Pecos County), Texas

Amazon Fort Stockton campus Under construction

Amazon Data Services filed TDLR registrations for three data center buildings (A, B, C; 189,060 sq ft and ~$300 million each) at a site 11 miles north of Fort Stockton, with construction scheduled August-December 2026, part of an August 2026 filing wave totaling 16 buildings and at least $4.8 billion across Fort Stockton, Floydada, and Amazon's existing Boling (Wharton County) campus. Amazon confirmed it is financing the GW Ranch gas plant being developed by Pacifico Energy in Pecos County (35 turbines, 7.65 GW) to power the campus; its permitted emissions of over 30 million metric tonnes of GHG per year would exceed any single source currently operating in the US.

Key facts

Operator: Amazon Web Services
Owner: Amazon
Filing LLC: Amazon Data Services
Location: Fort Stockton (Pecos County), Texas
Stage today: Under construction

Source
read 2026-09-22

What to do next

Next step: Under construction — pull the approved conditions and permits and hold the builder to them; an expansion or a new building reopens the record.

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What has happened so far (15 events)

2025-08-20announcement
Pacifico Energy announced the GW Ranch project, an off-grid power generation campus on 8,000+ acres in Pecos County combining natural gas turbines and battery storage to deliver 5 GW for hyperscale data centers, with 1 GW targeted for 2028 and full capacity by 2030. · source
2026-01-26permit
Pacifico Energy announced it secured a TCEQ air permit for 7.65 GW of gas-fired power generation at GW Ranch, described as the largest air permit granted in the United States, with Phase 1 to deliver 1 GW in the first half of 2027. · source
2026-02-04coverage
The Big Bend Sentinel reported a massive AI data center campus coming to Pecos County on Highway 18 north of Fort Stockton, with Pecos County Judge Joe Shuster and Economic Development Director Remie Ramos expressing support for the project's economic benefits. · source
2026-06-22hearing
Pecos County Commissioners Court held a public hearing to designate and establish the GW Ranch Reinvestment Zone under Texas Tax Code Chapter 312 and considered approving a tax abatement agreement with Pacifico GW LLC. · source
2026-07-24construction
Airbus satellite imagery captured on this date showed land clearing already underway at the GW Ranch site north of Fort Stockton, as reported by Cleanview on August 7. · source
2026-08-03announcement
Governor Greg Abbott announced a moratorium on new data center approvals pending an ERCOT and PUCT audit of energy, water, and community impacts; off-grid projects like Amazon's Pecos County campus were noted as largely unaffected since they bypass grid interconnection. · source
2026-08-06coverage
RFD-TV reported that Floyd County commissioners plan to use a Chapter 312 tax abatement agreement to impose conditions on a proposed Amazon data center campus valued at over $1 billion in Floydada, part of the same August 2026 Amazon filing wave that includes the Fort Stockton campus. · source
2026-08-07filing
Amazon Data Services' TDLR filings for three 189,060 sq ft, ~$300M data center buildings 11 miles north of Fort Stockton were reported, with construction scheduled August-December 2026. · source
2026-08-07coverage
The New Republic reported that Amazon's GW Ranch gas plant in Pecos County, permitted for 33 million tons of CO2 annually, would be the biggest single pollution source in the United States, exceeding the nation's largest coal power plant. · source
2026-08-08announcement
Amazon confirmed it is financing the 7.65 GW, 35-turbine GW Ranch gas plant (developer Pacifico Energy) in Pecos County to power its new data center campus there, per reporting on Cleanview's analysis connecting Amazon's construction permits to the plant. · source
2026-08-10coverage
The San Antonio Current reported the Amazon campus on 8,400 acres along Highway 18, approximately 17 miles north of Fort Stockton, could become the nation's largest polluter, noting concerns about proximity to Big Bend National Park and Amazon's net-zero 2040 pledge. · source
2026-08-11coverage
E&E News by Politico reported on Amazon's off-grid gas plant in Pecos County, quoting Environment Texas executive director Luke Metzger warning that data centers will 'build gas plants and increase climate and local air pollution' rather than using cleaner grid electricity. · source
2026-08-13coverage
The Fort Stockton Pioneer published a report on community debate over the data center proposal's impact on Fort Stockton land, water, and future growth. · source
2026-09-18coverage
Marfa Public Radio reported that Pacifico Energy, the developer of the GW Ranch plant powering this campus, pitched Brewster County officials on a second off-grid data center and gas plant on about 8,400 acres in the Glass Mountains of Brewster County, estimated at $5 billion to $60 billion. County Judge Greg Henington said the county was 'not taking this, like a lay down'; about 10 residents spoke against it, citing air quality, noise and dark skies. · source
2026-09-22coverage
During Climate Week NYC, Democracy Now! broadcast from outside Amazon's New York office with Bill McKibben (350.org, Third Act) and Kavita Sthanumurthy of Amazon Employees for Climate Justice, who targeted the 35-turbine Pecos County gas plant. Sthanumurthy said the group's own research put Amazon's actual renewable share 'closer to 22%', against the company's 100% renewable claim; that figure is the group's, not an audited number. · source

Find the paper trail

Find the paper trail (1 filed · 11 places to look)

Permits already on file (1)

Filings we have a source for — the record, not a place to look for one.

2026-01-26
Pacifico Energy announced it secured a TCEQ air permit for 7.65 GW of gas-fired power generation at GW Ranch, described as the largest air permit granted in the United States, with Phase 1 to deliver 1 GW in the first half of 2027. · source

State environmental permits

Backup generators, water withdrawal and stormwater are permitted by the state, usually earlier and in more detail than anything filed locally.

Texas TCEQ — Air Permits DivisionThe program page: which permits this state requires, and the office that issues them.
TCEQ Central RegistrySearchable public filings — search the operator, the shell LLC on the deed, and the address.

County & town filings

The rezoning application, site plan, traffic and noise studies, staff report and every revision.

Search Fort Stockton (Pecos County) planning filingssearchPlanning departments post application files under many different names. Find the department, then ask the clerk for the application number — that number unlocks everything else.
Search Fort Stockton (Pecos County) property records / GISsearchThe parcel record names the buying LLC and the sale date, which is what ties an anonymous filing to an operator.

Utility & grid records

The electricity request is filed with the grid operator and the utility long before the town hears about it — and states the real load.

ERCOT (Texas) — interconnection queueRequested megawatts, queue position and target in-service date. The MW here is the real number; the one at the town meeting is often phase one.
Public Utility Commission of Texas — docket searchSpecial contracts, large-load tariffs and rate cases are docketed here. Testimony and exhibits are public, and are usually more candid than the press release.
FERC eLibraryFederal filings: transmission agreements, interconnection service agreements, and co-location disputes.
Search the serving utility for a will-serve lettersearchThe will-serve or load-service letter is the utility's own written commitment. Ask the utility and the PUC for it by name — it is frequently the first document to exist.

Federal databases

Works anywhere, and covers the operator's record at its other sites.

EPA ECHO facility searchEvery federally-reported air, water and waste permit at a facility, plus its inspection and violation history. Search by address or draw a radius around the site. This project's locality centres on 30.890, -102.880 — search that point with a 5-mile radius.
EPA EnvirofactsThe same underlying records, queryable by county — useful for 'what else is permitted near this site' rather than one facility.
EPA Facility Registry ServiceResolves the shell LLC on a permit to the facility it belongs to. Worth a look when the filing name means nothing locally.

These are places to look, not evidence that anything has been filed. Links were checked on 2026-08-21; search links are queries, not records. What to ask for.

Around here

Texas briefing — rates, grid carbon, PUC contacts.

Other tracked projects in Texas

Pacifico Energy Glass Mountains data center and gas plant (proposed) — Brewster County, 42 mi Proposed
Crusoe Abilene Expansion — Abilene, 210 mi Under construction
OpenAI Stargate Shackelford — Shackelford County, 210 mi Under construction
Stargate Abilene — Abilene (Taylor County), 214 mi Approved
Meta-BlackRock El Paso Data Center — El Paso, 219 mi Proposed

Cite this page: GridWatch AI, “Amazon Fort Stockton campus”, aigridwatch.com/projects/amazon-fort-stockton-pecos, retrieved 2026-10-11.

As of August 2026 (2m ago) · changes weekly — re-check before citing

A working set of identified proposals a community can track, not a census — most of the country's activity is not in here yet. Pennsylvania is the exception: its rows are synced from PA DEP's own data-center permit tracker, so the state's coverage is close to complete and carries the permit trail with it. **Each row carries its own provenance.** Rows showing a verification date link to reporting or the governing body's own record and were read on that date; rows marked *unverified* have no source on record — a lead to check, not a fact to cite. **Stage is derived, not asserted.** *Hearing scheduled*, *Awaiting decision*, *Approved* and *Withdrawn* are computed from each row's milestone dates on every rebuild, so a hearing date that has passed stops reading 'scheduled'. Hearings get moved and projects re-file under new names — treat a scheduled date as the earliest to act by, and confirm with the clerk before relying on it. Leads are mined into data/project_candidates.json and promoted here only after a human reads a primary source.

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