April 19, 2026 - Last October, Fermi America raised $746 million in an IPO to build what it claimed would be the largest data center in the world. The company successfully pitched investors on a massive campus it tentatively called the President Donald J. Trump ...

January 8, 2026 - If built, Project Matador would be one of the largest datacenters in the world at around 18 million square feet. “What we’re talking about is creating the epicenter for artificial intelligence in the United States,” Neugebauer told the council.

August 11, 2026 - The rapid growth of technology ... responses to this demand is Project Matador, a groundbreaking data center and power generation campus planned near Amarillo, Texas....

April 22, 2026 - Project Matador is more than a power plant – it’s a purpose-built, vertically integrated energy campus designed to power America’s next wave of digital industries: hyperscale AI data centers and advanced semiconductor manufacturing.

December 17, 2025 - Unfortunately, if you are to believe ... Donald J. Trump Advanced Energy and Intelligence Campus is under construction about 12 miles northeast of Amarillo....

1 While the Project Matador on-site generation (including the nuclear units) are designated and sized to serve the · onsite data center loads, grid connections and controls will be established to enable effective balancing and ensure

October 17, 2025 - So when I heard Fermi America, an energy startup run by former Texas governor Rick Perry, wants to open a nuclear-powered AI data center they call “Project Matador” down the road from my home in the Panhandle, I smelled something bad.

March 30, 2026 - In late May, President Donald Trump signed an executive order directing the Secretary of Energy to “designate AI data centers, located at or operated in coordination with Department of Energy (DOE) facilities, as critical defense facilities, and the nuclear reactors powering them as defense critical electric infrastructure.” · From this executive order stemmed Project Matador, where Fermi America was approved as the sole applicant to serve as both the constructor and operator of a proposed hypergrid energy production facility to be located in Carson County.

July 27, 2026 - Founded by former US Energy Secretary ... its flagship Project Matador could deliver up to 11GW of energy and support up to 15 million square feet of AI-ready hyperscale compute infrastructure by 2038....

October 27, 2025 - data and energy campus near Amarillo dubbed both “Project Matador” and “The Donald J. Trump · Advanced Energy and Intelligence Campus.” Despite Fermi America having never built a project and · having no customers, the massive energy campus would occupy 5,800 acres in Carson County ...

March 5, 2026 - (Hyundai E&C) to help restart large-scale nuclear construction in the United States, including ongoing Front-End Engineering Design (FEED) work supporting four AP1000 units planned for Fermi America’s Project Matador, an 11-gigawatt private energy campus outside Amarillo, Texas.

April 1, 2026 - Project Matador was selected as an inaugural participant in the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's accelerated environmental review pilot program, as announced March 20. Its Combined Operating License (COLA) application for a large light-water reactor was the first accepted for review by the NRC in more than 15 years. The first phase of construction at the data campus is complete, and more than 2 GW of natural gas-fired power generation in combined cycle has been acquired.

Centered around Amarillo, the project combines 11 gigawatts of integrated generation capacity — four AP1000 nuclear reactors (4 GW), 2 GW of small modular reactors, 4 GW of combined-cycle gas plants, and 1 GW of solar and battery energy storage ...

April 21, 2026 - Fermi America, a massive nuclear ... commitment to build four large-scale nuclear reactors in the Texas Panhandle to power a sprawling data center complex known as Project Matador....

February 12, 2026 - The behind-the-meter Project Matador campus is expected to integrate the nation's biggest combined-cycle natural gas project, one of the largest clean, new nuclear power complexes in America, utility grid power, solar power, and battery energy ...

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August 10, 2026 - The 15-year lease covers a data center supplied by 222 megawatts of power at Project Matador, a sprawling energy and computing development under construction in Carson County northeast of Amarillo.