The world's first 17 GW private AI power grid — natural gas, nuclear, solar, and storage on 7,570 acres, serving more than 15 million square feet of data centers. First power Q4 2026.
Project Matador — the 17 GW campus at full build · Fermi America render
AI needs more power than America's grid can deliver. Fermi builds the power.
Six SGT-800 units stand up first power — 6 GW of permitted natural gas, bought and staged on West Texas ground.
Six units in formation from above — turbines arrive on a construction schedule, not an interconnection queue. The ramp is already underway.
15 million square feet of data halls rise beside the turbines, behind one fence, on a single private bus.
700,000 GPUs per gigawatt. Power becomes tokens — the campus is the platform, power is the product.
Not a render of intent — the machines that make first power, on the ground in the Panhandle.
6.0 GW · permitted · 2026Aeroderivative-class gas turbines in combined-cycle, federally permitted and staged for a Q4 2026 first power. The backbone of the early ramp.
Behind the meter · 345 kVField-hardened frames that energize the site while the larger fleet comes online — capacity that does not wait on the public grid.
Why the grid can't feed it, and what's rising in the Texas Panhandle. A 45 GW shortfall; queues that run years.
See the answer →Energized megawatts — the asset, the milestones, the risks. $1B+ committed; first revenue-bearing power Q4 2026.
See the thesis →First power Q4 2026; 1.5 GW by end of 2027 — in a country short 45 GW. Reserved in waves against construction, not a waiting list.
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Fermi's power never touches the public grid. No interconnection queue, no transmission risk, no competing with Texas households for electrons. Generation and computers share one private bus — so capacity arrives on a construction schedule, not a regulator's calendar.
The campus borders the Department of Energy's Pantex Plant — the most security-scrutinized ground in America. That means a region built around clearances and restricted airspace, a workforce fluent in nuclear-grade safety culture, and regulators who already know the neighborhood.
Permits are the real queue — and Fermi has already crossed it. Air: a 6 GW federal permit secured, 5 GW more filed. Water: 11 MGD from America's second-largest aquifer, 2.5 MGD already at site. Nuclear: the first Combined License the NRC has accepted in fifteen years. Competitors start that clock at zero.
America is short a projected 45 gigawatts, and new connections wait years. Against that scarcity, Fermi's turbines are bought, financed, and staged — a ramp to 1.5 GW by the end of 2027 and 2 GW in 2028. Almost no one else in the country can say that sentence.
More than 15 million square feet of AI data centers, fed directly from the campus bus — no transmission, no curtailment, no queue.
Four power sources feed fifteen data halls through one private bus. Nothing waits on the public grid.
Fermi America — official filmSame facts. Three honest answers.
Because thinking takes energy — even for machines.
Every question you ask an AI runs through warehouses of processors that draw electricity the way a city does — one large AI campus can need as much power as millions of homes. If those campuses plug into the grid you already use, everyone competes for the same electrons. Fermi's answer is to build the power plant and the data center together, on the same land, behind the same fence — so AI gets fed without raiding the neighborhood's supply.
The math is simple. Our campus is the platform. Power is the product. The timeline is now.