Pecos campus expansion plan
Company: Core Scientific - Project: Cottonwood
The claim, verbatim
Company announced ambition to expand Pecos campus to approximately 1.5 gigawatts of gross power
Source (primary)
Core Scientific Gets Conditional ERCOT Status for 1 GW at Texas Sites - TheEnergyMag (-, news_article)
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Quote: “the company's broader ambition, announced in April, to expand the campus to about 1.5 gigawatts of gross power”
How we checked this
Checked on September 23, 2026. The cited source supports every part of this claim.
The article states Core Scientific announced in April an ambition to expand the Pecos campus to about 1.5 gigawatts of gross power, while noting the recent filing does not approve that full expansion.
Confirmed in the source:
- Core Scientific announced an ambition to expand the Pecos campus
- The target is about 1.5 gigawatts of gross power
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 company's broader ambition, announced in April, to expand the campus to about 1.5 gigawatts of gross power”