Hunt site planned capacity ERCOT approval
Company: Core Scientific - Project: Hunt County
The claim, verbatim
431 megawatts of planned capacity at Hunt site received conditional base-load status under ERCOT pathway for advancing large loads
Source (primary)
Core Scientific Gets Conditional ERCOT Status for 1 GW at Texas Sites - TheEnergyMag (-, news_article)
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Quote: “The planned 431-megawatt Hunt site received conditional base-load status under the pathway for advancing large loads.”
How we checked this
Checked on September 23, 2026. The cited source supports every part of this claim.
The article states the planned 431-megawatt Hunt site received conditional base-load status under the pathway for advancing large loads, and places this within ERCOT's Batch Zero review.
Confirmed in the source:
- Core Scientific's Hunt site has 431 megawatts of planned capacity
- The Hunt site received conditional base-load status
- The status was granted under ERCOT's pathway for advancing large loads
What we did: Read our cached copy of the publisher (https://www.theenergymag.com/news/market-news/core-scientific-ercot-power-texas-ai-data-centers) in full (4,910 characters, retrieved September 14, 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 - TheEnergyMag
Quote: “The planned 431-megawatt Hunt site received conditional base-load status under the pathway for advancing large loads.”