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Fermi America Project Matador
Also known as Fermi America HyperGrid Amarillo
Operated by Fermi America at Project Matador Site (Carson County) .
Phase 1 seed dataset, compiled by hand. These rows were built from public operator, laboratory and vendor sources. A mechanical second-reader pass has since fetched every cited source: 1263 of 1345 systems have a readable citation that names them, and 56 are genuinely weakly sourced. Every claim carries its source and a confidence tier. Treat anything below verified as a lead, not a citation.
Measured performance
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- Rmax ÷ Rpeak
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- Cores
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- Power
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- Per watt
- - GF/W
Figures are as last publicly reported for the configuration described below, not a live measurement. Where a system was upgraded in place, the post-upgrade configuration is shown and the earlier one appears in the timeline.
What this machine is made of
One row per supplier relationship. “Supplier at build” is the company that shipped the part at the time; where that company has since been acquired, the parent it rolls up to today is shown beside it. That distinction is what makes ticker-level aggregation possible across a thirty-year dataset.
| Role | Part | Supplier at build | Quantity | Confidence | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Integrator | - Fermi America develops the Project Matador campus and its private power grid | Fermi America | - | Reported | investor.fermiamerica.comfermiamerica.com |
| Accelerator | - AMD Instinct GPUs, tens of thousands planned for TensorWave in phase one | AMD | - | Reported | investor.fermiamerica.com |
AI datacenter metrics
Figures beyond an accelerator count, each with who stated it. What can and cannot be compared across AI datacenters.
| Metric | Value | As of | Basis | Note | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Facility power | 17,000 MW | 2026-10-09 | Design target | Fermi quotes about 17 GW total private-grid capacity on its home and lease pages; its progress page lists about 11.4 GW (6 GW gas, 4.4 GW nuclear, 1 GW grid and renewables). | investor.fermiamerica.comfermiamerica.com |
| Facility power | 222 MW | 2026-08-10 | Operator stated | TensorWave binding lease for 222 MW of total facility power in phase one, with rights that could take the partnership above 650 MW. | investor.fermiamerica.com |
How it is powered
| Source | Provider | MW | Status | As of | Basis | Note | Source link |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| On-site gas | - | 6,000 | planned | 2026-10 | Operator stated | Fermi progress page: about 6 GW of natural gas (Siemens SGT800 and SGT6-5000F units, refurbished GE 6B frames) as part of a roughly 11.4 GW plan; equipment arriving or shipping. | fermiamerica.cominvestor.fermiamerica.com |
| Other | - | 4,400 | planned | 2026-10 | Design target | Fermi progress page: 4.4 GW of nuclear (Westinghouse AP1000 and small modular reactors) for long-term baseload; no regulatory approval cited here. | fermiamerica.com |
How AI campuses are powered: capacities are what the operator, utility or filing states, not what has been delivered.
The read
Fermi America's Project Matador, a private-grid energy and AI data center campus on about 8,400 acres in Carson County in the Texas Panhandle next to the Pantex DOE complex. Fermi's site says steel construction has begun and first power is targeted for 2026, and its investor release of 10 August 2026 says TensorWave signed a binding lease for 222 MW of total facility power in phase one (rights to over 650 MW), with phased delivery from the second half of 2027 for tens of thousands of AMD Instinct GPUs. Fermi quotes about 17 GW of total campus capacity on its home and lease pages but about 11.4 GW on its progress page (about 6 GW gas, 4.4 GW nuclear, 1 GW grid and renewables); both are company statements and nothing is operating, so the tier is reported.
Timeline
No dated events recorded.
Site & facility
Project Matador Site (Carson County)
- Location
- Carson County, TX (Amarillo area), USA
- Utility
- Xcel Energy (behind-the-meter interconnection)
Change history
- 2026-10-09 Added Fermi America Project Matador
Source check
We fetched this system's own citations and recorded whether each page actually mentions it. This is a corroboration signal, not a fact check, and it is published so you can see how well the sourcing holds up rather than take it on trust.
| Cited source | Result | Found on the page |
|---|---|---|
| fermiamerica.com | names system only | - |
| investor.fermiamerica.com | names system only | - |
Checked 2026-10-13 by pnpm verify. Re-run it and the table changes with the web.