New Era Helium-Sharon AI Ector County Data Center New Era Helium / Sharon AI (joint venture)
Midland County, TX
Midland County Gas-Powered Data Center Platform
Operator not disclosed. Filed. 150 MW.
A 320 acre site in Midland County has been secured for a behind the meter natural gas power platform with 150 megawatts of ready now capacity intended to serve future data center load, with phase one potentially operational as early as 2026. The project is part of a wider wave of Permian Basin gas power plants planned to serve data centers, for which Texas regulators issued the largest air pollution permit in the country.
- Status
- Filed
- Operator
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Midland, Midland County, TX (approximate, county seat)
- Size
- 150 MW, 320 acres
- Cooling
- Not reported
- Utility
- Not reported
- First reported
- 2026-02
- Last updated
- August 19, 2026
Sources
- Huge Texas data centers will get their own gas power plants, Texas Tribune, 2026-02-02
- FO Permian Partners unveils 5GW off-grid gas power solution for Texas data centers, Data Center Dynamics, 2026
What it would mean nearby
The cooling design has not been reported. If it uses evaporative cooling, a 150 MW facility would draw roughly 476,000 to 1.7 million gallons of water a day, about what 5,500 households use.
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