Rick Perry Leads Charge on Massive Texas Energy Hub for AI Boom
Rick Perry, the former Texas governor who later served as U. S. Energy Secretary, has thrown his weight behind a sprawling new project set to reshape the power landscape. Through Fermi America, the company he co-founded, Perry aims to build an 11-gigawatt complex near Lubbock that combines natural gas and nuclear power to feed the insatiable demands of data centers, particularly those running artificial intelligence operations. The venture, dubbed Project Matador, kicks off with a 6-gigawatt natural gas plant, which just secured preliminary approval from Texas authorities. This phase alone ranks among the world’s largest clean natural gas facilities, designed to. Continue reading Rick Perry Leads Charge on Massive Texas Energy Hub for AI Boom