Ep. 41 — The private grid: Amazon backs a 7.65-gigawatt gas plant that skips the Texas power grid entirely, and compute becomes a permitting problem

The private grid: Amazon backs a 7.65-gigawatt gas plant that skips the Texas power grid entirely, and compute becomes a permitting problem 00:48 — Amazon confirms it is buying power from GW Ranch, a 7.65-gigawatt private gas plant in Pecos County, Texas, permitted to emit up to 33 million tons of CO2 a year and initially not connected to the state grid 02:17 — The trade: a private grid means no interconnection queue, no rate-payer fight and real local jobs — and also no ERCOT curtailment, a permit ceiling roughly double the country's dirtiest operating plant, and a public whose opposition jumped 13 points in six months 03:47 — Bring your own power: Microsoft and Chevron's 2.67-gigawatt off-grid project sits about 20 miles south of Pecos, and the pattern says compute is becoming a power-generation business Daily Prompt with Archer & Iris.