SMRTR TechOct 16, 2025Daily.dev

Texas oil fields become hot spot for datacenter builders

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Texas oil fields are becoming prime locations for massive AI datacenters due to abundant natural gas supplies needed for multi-gigawatt facilities. Meta announced a $1.5 billion, one-gigawatt datacenter in El Paso, while Poolside and CoreWeave plan a $16 billion, two-gigawatt facility powered directly by onsite natural gas generators. OpenAI's Stargate campus in Abilene will eventually house 450,000 Nvidia GPUs across 1.2 gigawatts of capacity by next year.

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