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Reported geography
Source-reported location for Project Matador.
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Facility snapshot
- Operator as published
- Fermi America
- Address and locality
- Amarillo · Carson County · Texas
- Source-reported status
- under construction
- Facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Not stated
- Source freshness
- 26 August 2026
- Location precision
- exact
- Source confidence
- reported
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-000618
What the source record says
11GW is the long-term ceiling for the HyperGrid campus; near-term company targets include 1GW by end of 2026 and 2.3GW first-phase delivery — these are company goals, not firm commitments. Land acreage reported variously (5,769 acres per DCD July 2025 and 5,855 acres per other sources; later company materials cite 7,570 acres on 7,570 acres); using 5,769 as the earliest confirmed figure, sourced from the gas turbine acquisition announcement. Coordinates approximate (seed-provided; site in Carson County ~12 miles NE of Amarillo, adjacent to DOE Pantex Plant). Fermi America co-founded January 2025 by former Texas Governor and U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry, Toby Neugebauer (CEO, departed April 2026 after being fired 'without cause'), and Griffin Perry. IPO raised $682M on Nasdaq under ticker FRMI (October 2025), valuing company at ~$19B at opening; market cap collapsed to ~$3.4B by April 2026 after leadership exits and loss of anchor tenant ($150M LOI canceled December 2025). Company organized as a REIT; had zero revenue at IPO. Investment: equipment financing commitments exceed $600M ($500M MUFG turbine warehouse + $200M Keystone/Cape facility); projected total project cost $70–90B is a range/projection, not a firm figure — omitted from investmentUsd per data-rigor policy. Jobs: 50,000+ projected across campus lifetime — projection only, omitted from jobs field. Nuclear campus name in NRC COLA filings: 'President Donald J. Trump Advanced Energy and Intelligence Campus'; publicly marketed as Project Matador / HyperGrid.
Any MW value is reproduced as source-reported context. Its measurement boundary is not established consistently enough for comparison. Unknown is not zero.
Status history supplied by the source
- 2025 · source-reported proposed
Fermi America founded January 2025 by Rick Perry, Toby Neugebauer, and Griffin Perry. Project Matador announced on ~5,769-acre site in Carson County under 99-year lease with Texas Tech University System, adjacent to DOE Pantex Plant.
- 2025 · source-reported under construction
600MW+ natural gas turbines acquired across two deals (July 2025); COLA for four AP1000 reactors filed with NRC June 17 2025; NRC accepted COLA for review September 2025; TCEQ preliminary approval for first 6GW gas generation (November 2025); geotechnical work commenced on campus.
Sources and attribution
- Fermi America acquires 600MW of gas turbines for 11GW AI mega campus in Amarillo, Texas · Data Center Dynamics
- Fermi America Makes Initial Draw on $200M Equipment Facility to Accelerate 2.3GW Delivery · PR Newswire
- Fermi America and State of Texas Announce TCEQ Preliminary Approval for First 6GW Natural Gas Facilities · PR Newswire
- Fermi America Project Matador AP1000 Units 1-4 Combined License Application · U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
- Fermi America looks to go public as NRC accepts COLA for AP1000s · ANS Nuclear Newswire
- Project Matador: Massive AI Data Center in Texas Panhandle Promises Pollution · Sierra Club Texas
- Rick Perry's AI power startup Fermi already has a $16 billion market cap—and zero revenue · Fortune
- Financially struggling, AI power startup Fermi loses its CEO and CFO for '2.0' reset · Fortune
- HIFLD Electric Retail Service Territories (ORNL/DOE-CESER, 2023-08 vintage) · Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) / HIFLD
- Fermi Inc. IPO prospectus (Form 424B4) — beneficial ownership table · U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
- Fermi Inc. proxy solicitation materials (DEFA14A), June 2026 · U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.33.0, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID fermi-matador-amarillo-tx. Filtered to data-center records in the 50 U.S. states; selected fields normalized for search and display; DataCenterData directory IDs added.
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