Pecos facility 300 MW existing capacity
Company: Core Scientific - Project: Cottonwood
The claim, verbatim
300 megawatts of existing power at Pecos received conditional base-load status
Source (primary)
Core Scientific Gets Conditional ERCOT Status for 1 GW at Texas Sites - theminermag.com (-, news_article)
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Quote: “At Pecos, the company's existing 300 megawatts received conditional base-load status under a pathway covering facilities energized after March 25, 2022, and before July 10, 2026”
How we checked this
Checked on September 20, 2026. The cited source supports every part of this claim.
The document confirms Pecos's existing 300 MW received conditional base-load status.
Confirmed in the source:
- 300 megawatts of existing power at Pecos received conditional base-load status
What we did: Read our cached copy of the publisher (https://theminermag.com/news/market-news/core-scientific-ercot-power-texas-ai-data-centers) in full (4,919 characters, retrieved September 11, 2026) and checked each assertion in the claim against it.
Additional evidence
confirms Core Scientific Gets Conditional ERCOT Status for 1 GW at Texas Sites - theminermag.com
Quote: “At Pecos, the company's existing 300 megawatts received conditional base-load status under a pathway covering facilities energized after March 25, 2022, and before July 10, 2026”