Encinal

TPR's Jerry Clayton has more.

It's called Project Star, and officials say the plans include a nearly six and a half gigawatt natural gas power plant that would serve a five gigawatt data center near Encinal.

Excess electricity would be sent to the Texas power grid.

Officials say they are considering using produced water from oil and gas operations for cooling at the data center.

Quickly.

Yeah, $22 billion is in Encinal, Texas.

That is for natural gas facilities.

A company we own, Comstock Resource, Jerry Jones owns 71% of the stock, he's involved in this.

Next, NextEra.

On Wednesday, NextEra Energy, Lewis Energy Group and Related Digital said the US Department of Commerce and the Republic of Korea selected related companies and NextEra Energy Resources in partnership with Lewis Energy Group to develop Project Star in Encinal, Texas.

Per the company's release, it is a twenty-two billion dollar natural gas power campus with about six and a half gigawatts of generation built to support a five-gigawatt data center campus on an adjacent site.

The release says the campus will be owned jointly by the Republic of Korea and the United States, and built and operated by the Related and NextEra Energy Resources joint venture.

The project is fully consistent with Texas Governor Greg Abbott's directive that data centers bring their own generation to the ERCOT system, strengthening local infrastructure and improving service reliability for utility customers.

Project Star, Encinal, Texas, twenty-two-point-three billion dollars, six-point-four-seven gigawatts of gas generation sitting next to a five-gigawatt campus.

And the power plant's owner? The Republic of Korea and the United States jointly under the trade deal.

That's a new one for the counterparty column.

Um, the Daily Caller News Foundation reported on September twenty-second that South Korea has picked a Texas natural gas plant for artificial intelligence data centers as the first project under its three hundred and fifty billion US investment pledge.

The six-point-three-gigawatt power plant for, uh, y- in c- in, in Encinal, Encinal, Texas, would serve AI data centers and semiconductor factories and is worth more than twenty billion.

So they pledged three hundred and fifty billion of investment.

Here's twenty billion of it.

South Korea's industry ministry briefed lawmakers on the first projects in a deal to invest three hundred and fifty billion dollars in the US in exchange for lower tariffs.

They include a gas-fired power plant in Encinal, Texas, which could help fuel new semiconductor plants and AI data centers in the state.

They also include the building of up to eight nuclear reactors in the US and a liquid natural gas project in Alaska.

Announcement of the projects came after lengthy negotiations by the two governments, which still have to approve the plans.