West Texas

6 statements across 4 episodes · 3 bullish · 1 bearish · 4 people on the record · first statement Oct 22, 2024 by Chase Lockmiller · said 26 times in 13 episodes since 2022 · across every show →

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brought up most by Shayle Kann (8), Jeremy Eliahu-Ontiveros (5), Jake Elder (4), Chase Lockmiller (3), Rafi Garabedian (2), Sheldon Kimber (1), Rob Gramlich (1), George Hershman (1)

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Everything said about West Texas, oldest first

Oct 22, 2024 neutral
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Lockmiller: West Texas has massive renewable curtailment and negative power prices
“So markets like West Texas that have been, you know, heavily developed with wind and solar but have massive amounts of curtailment and negatively priced power.”
Chase Lockmiller Oct 22, 2024 ▶ 3:56 Frontier Forum: An energy-first approach to data centers
Nov 13, 2025 bearish
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Garabedian: ERCOT green power prices doubled to $65/MWh amid AI demand
“If you look in West Texas and you were to sign a solar and wind kind of affirmed green power purchase agreement in, in Texas and Urquhart territory three years ago, you might've paid 35 dollars a megawatt hour for that product. Today you're paying 65, maybe mo…”
Rafi Garabedian Nov 13, 2025 ▶ 10:38 Driving down the cost of green hydrogen
Mar 12, 2026 positive
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Kann: Data center development is rapidly expanding into West Texas
“Historically, you know, there were these tier one markets, like Northern Virginia, or Chicago, or Phoenix, or whatever, Atlanta, and they were where 90% of the demand for new data centers was going to be, and there's still that. But it is broadening out quickl…”
Shayle Kann Mar 12, 2026 ▶ 26:32 AI scaling pathways: on grid, on edge, off grid, off planet
Jul 9, 2026 neutral
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Eliahu-Ontiveros: Lancium is developing Texas power infrastructure for Oracle and OpenAI
“Lancium has been pretty open about this. If you don't know them, they're the ones sort of building the, owning the land and developing the power infra, enabling Texas for Oracle and OpenAI. They have a bunch of other sites that are pretty massive in West Texas…”
Jeremy Eliahu-Ontiveros Jul 9, 2026 ▶ 38:51 Inside the AI power wars
Jul 9, 2026 bullish
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Eliahu-Ontiveros: Massive AI data center campuses will concentrate in West Texas
“I think the way big data centers, big data center campuses are going to look like a few years from now, again, like, obviously the scenario is we keep adding tens of gigawatts per year that keeps growing, so, you know, we're in this AI scenario. I'm, you know,…”
Jeremy Eliahu-Ontiveros Jul 9, 2026 ▶ 37:49 Inside the AI power wars
Jul 9, 2026 bullish
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Eliahu-Ontiveros: Reliable developers are planning 5 GW data centers in West Texas
“I know of very reliable developers now that are planning five gigawatt data centers in West Texas. So I think it's really changing. We're at an inflection point, and I think you're going to see some pretty gigantic announcements.”
Jeremy Eliahu-Ontiveros Jul 9, 2026 ▶ 40:07 Inside the AI power wars
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