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GW Ranch (Pacifico Energy)

GW Ranch (Pacifico Energy)

Permitted
Confirmed

Jurisdiction: US — Texas (ERCOT)

Pecos County, West Texas; sited within 8,000+ acres. Off-grid/private-grid power generation and data center campus.

Capacity
5,000 MW basis: facility total
GPUs (est.)
—
Capex
—
Announced
—
Target operational
—

Delivery health score

64 /100
64/100

Methodology prs-v0.1 · computed · trigger: manual

Schedule

85 /100
85/100

Regulatory

70 /100
70/100

Infrastructure

70 /100
70/100

Capital

40 /100
40/100

Why this score — factor breakdown

Each factor below contributed to the current score. Contributions are rubric weights from methodology prs-v0.1; every factor cites the record it is derived from.

Dimension
Factor
Contribution
Cites
Narrative
Capital baseline 40 GW Ranch (Pacifico Energy) No committed capital evidenced on any entity role — announcement-only anchor region (§B.2.4).
Infrastructure baseline 70 GW Ranch (Pacifico Energy) No-adverse-evidence infrastructure baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines).
Regulatory baseline 70 GW Ranch (Pacifico Energy) No-adverse-evidence regulatory baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines).
Schedule baseline 80 GW Ranch (Pacifico Energy) No-adverse-evidence schedule baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines).
Schedule milestone achieved +5 Announcement Milestone "Announcement" achieved on/ahead of its first announced date (2025-08-21).

Milestones

  1. Announcement

    Achieved

    Announcement · Actual:

  2. Groundbreaking

    Expected
    1 revision

    Groundbreaking · Expected:

  3. Energization

    Expected
    1 revision

    Energization · Expected:

  4. Utility Approval

    Expected

    Utility approval

Constraint observations

No active constraint observations recorded against this project.

Entities & roles

Entity
Role
Ownership
Committed capital
Pacifico Energy
Developer
— —
Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ)
Utility Provider
— —

Sources & citations

Every substantive field on this record is backed by a canonical claim from a cited source document, graded on the E1 (strongest) – E5 (weakest) evidence ladder.

  1. E2
    Pacifico Energy - GW Ranch | Off-Grid Power Generation

    Pacifico Energy · backs: capacity mw, expected date, status

    https://www.pacificoenergy.com/gw-ranch

  2. E3
    Data Center Dynamics - Pacifico Energy unveils 5GW offgrid natural gas project in Texas slated to serve a hyperscale data center

    Data Center Dynamics · Aug 21, 2025 · backs: actual date

    https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/pacifico-energy-unveils-5gw-offgrid-natural-gas-project-in-texas-slated-to-serve-a-hyperscale-data-center/

Signals

Recent ingested source documents linked to this project via extracted claims or triage mentions, newest first.

  1. E2
    Pacifico Energy - GW Ranch | Off-Grid Power Generation

    Pacifico Energy