Thank you to the donors and winners of our silent auction items, which raised over $20,000 for the Bettering Human Lives Foundation.

Honored to have the Under Secretary of Energy Wells Griffith address the conference. Watch the 3-minute recording here.

Good coverage by Fox24.

Summary (and links) to LinkedIn posts from conference participants.

The drive to use natural gas production from Permian wells, to provide power not just to oilfield equipment but to manufacturing, artificial intelligence and data centers, offers opportunities, said Kaes Van’t Hof, chief executive officer of Diamondback Energy.

First Alert 7 did a nice job covering the Permian Power Connection Conference on the evening news.

Clay Gaspar told a recent conference the company is studying greater infrastructure investments in New Mexico “in a defensive mechanism.”

Good coverage of the Permian Power Connection Conference by the Odessa American.

Texas Critical Data Centers (TCDC) has signed a non-binding Letter of Intent (LOI) with Roth CH Acquisition to acquire an additional 203 acres for its planned AI data center development in Ector County, Texas.

Opening the second day of the Permian Power Connection conference, Jose Ortega of FO Permian told his audience that demand from artificial intelligence centers will reach 5 to 6 gigawatts in the next five years.

The two units will be built next to Vistra’s 325-megawatt gas-fired plant near Monahans.

At the Permian Power Connection Conference, Lawrence Downing said ERCOT got “a warning shot” a decade ahead of Winter Storm Uri when a major winter storm caused power outages across the state, affecting 3.2 million customers and freezing generating assets because there had not been an emphasis on weatherization.

Xcel Energy is adding more natural gas-fired power generation in Texas, with plans to convert a retiring coal-fired plant to natural gas, along with building a new peaker plant to provide electricity at times of high demand.

NewsWest 9 covers the Permian Power Connection Conference.

The Permian Basin land has the ability to house a 1.1-gigawatt natural gas power generation facility.

Widely recognized as the epicenter of America’s oil and natural gas output, the Permian Basin is now emerging as a major driver of electricity demand.

Under the deal, Cipher Mining will repurpose its Bitcoin mining data center in West Texas for AI services—and potentially expand its existing campus to accommodate increased demand.

Law enforcement officials took 12 or 13 individuals–about half of the repair company’s staff–from the site after they failed to demonstrate proper credentials. ICE took all Chinese nationals, many of whom had expired visas, the source claimed.

Fermi America’s IPO rode a wave of AI enthusiasm, despite questions about the viability of the planned “HyperGrid” megasite in Texas.

Data centers need power and lots of it, and there may not be enough to go around.

Also agree to collaborate on nuclear energy buildout.

Governor said project in works to eclipse Oracle, Open AI’s $400 billion investment in “Project Stargate”.

How Vertical Integration Delivered the Stargate Abilene AI Hub in Record Time.

Amarillo residents urged city leaders at the Sept. 23 meeting to slow down and speak more openly about any potential water agreement tied to Fermi America’s proposed AI data and energy campus, warning it could reshape regional water supplies, power costs, and agriculture for decades.

In Abilene alone, a crew of 6,400 workers has already flattened hills by moving mountains of soil and laid enough fiber optic cable to wrap the Earth 16 times.

Like its Gunsmoke namesake, Miss Kitty—a Plains, Texas behind-the-meter microgrid project—is tough, pragmatic, and distinctly Western.

The 20 MW, ~1 EH/s deployment in Briscoe County, in West Texas is part of a broader roadmap for both companies.

With the explosive growth of Big Tech’s data centers threatening to overload U.S. electricity grids, policymakers are taking a hard look at a tough-love solution: bumping the energy-hungry data centers off grids during power emergencies.