Amazon’s GW Ranch Underscores West Texas as Ground Zero for Large-Load Power Development

Tech giant Amazon has confirmed its acquisition of GW Ranch, a massive west Texas hyperscale data center campus that, while touting its low impact on the state’s electrical and water resources, also has the potential of substantial long-term carbon emissions.

In August, Amazon filed building permits for three 189,000-sq-ft data center buildings to be located on the 8,000-acre remote Pecos County campus, according to energy market and data center research firm Cleanview Inc, which said it matched satellite images…

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Hydrogen Supply Outlook 2024: A Reality Check

BNEF expects clean H2 supply to skyrocket 30-fold to 16.4 million metric tons per year by 2030, driven by supportive policy and a maturing project pipeline. Still, this is not sufficient to meet most government targets. Less than a third of the 1,600 projects that have been announced to date materialize in BNEF’s bottom-up analysis, and often later than planned.

  • From 0.5 million metric tons (Mt) of capacity online today, annual low-carbon hydrogen supply could grow 30x by 2030. Only around 30% of all currently announced supply for commissioning by the end of the decade is likely to be built…
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