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Deaf Smith County, Texas

Deaf Smith County, Texas has 17 power projects in the FieldProspects database: 3 operating plants totaling 709.8 MW and 14 planned projects totaling 8.3 GW. No data center record lists the county. Solar leads with 4.2 GW across 8 projects.

Data as of Grid region: ERCOTRefreshed monthly
17
power projects, planned and operating
8.3GW
planned generation, 14 projects
709.8MW
operating generation, 3 wind projects
0
planned projects past their listed in-service date
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Deaf Smith County and its neighbors

Counties shaded by data center MW on record, planned to operating. 4 of its 4 neighboring counties have pages of their own. The rest are in the member database.

Deaf Smith no data centers Castro no data centers Randall no data centers Oldham 205 MW Parmer no data centers
no data center MWunder 100 MW100 to 1,000 MW1,000 to 5,000 MW5,000 to 15,000 MW15,000 MW or more no page yet

Data center records planned, under construction and operating, data as of October 8, 2026.Hover a county for its numbers

Headline finding
11.7times

more planned than operating generation in Deaf Smith County. 14 projects in the queue would add 8.3 GW to the 709.8 MW operating today.

Operating generation709.8 MW
Planned generation8.3 GW

Technology mix

17 projects, 9 GW planned and operating

Solar4.2 GW8 projects, 46%
Wind3.3 GW7 projects, 37%
Natural Gas1.3 GW1 project, 14%
One other technology207 MW1 project, 2%
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Power generation in the county

3 plants operate inside Deaf Smith County, 709.8 MW of wind. The queue adds 8.3 GW across 14 projects.

Figure 1

Operating and planned generation by technology

MW in Deaf Smith County

OperatingPlanned
SolarPlanned 4.2 GW 8 projects
WindOperating 709.8 MW 3 projects
WindPlanned 2.6 GW 4 projects
Natural GasPlanned 1.3 GW 1 project
Battery StoragePlanned 207 MW 1 project
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TechnologyStatusProjectsMW
SolarPlanned84,179.1
WindOperating3709.8
WindPlanned42,618.7
Natural GasPlanned11,275
Battery StoragePlanned1207
Operating: 709.8 MW. Planned: 8.3 GW. If every planned project is built, county generation would reach 9 GW.
Source. FieldProspects database: ISO/RTO interconnection queues, EIA-860M and public data center filings, data as of October 8, 2026.
Figure 2

Planned generation by listed in-service year

MW. Years before 2026 are past due.

Past dueDue 2026 or later
02k4k6k 1,148 2027 4,499 2028 2,632 2029
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YearPlanned projectsMW
202731,148.4
202874,499
202942,632.4
No planned project is past its listed year

Deaf Smith County against its neighbors

Oldham County has the most data center MW among the neighbors, 205 MW. 4 of the 4 have more generation operating than data center MW on record.

CountyData center recordsData center MWOperating generation MWPlanned generation MWData center MW per MW operating
Oldham County 1
205
755
0 0.27x
Deaf Smith County this page 0
0
710
8,280 0x
Parmer County 0
0
495
565 0x
Castro County 0
0
442
3,391 0x
Randall County 0
0
167
0 0x

Data center MW counts records planned, under construction and operating. Generation is inside the county only. Neighbors without a page have fewer than three projects on record.

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What changed since June 4, 2026

4 projects in Deaf Smith County moved between the two snapshots. Counts and MW are below; the projects themselves are for members.

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1
added to a queue, 1.3 GW
1
came online, started construction or signed an interconnection agreement, 445.4 MW
0
cancelled, dropped or went inactive, 0 MW
2
slipped their in-service date, 1 GW

Every change in Deaf Smith County

Project, what changed, technology, MW and the dates that moved, for all 4 changes.

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County: Deaf Smith County, TXSince June 4, 2026 4 changes
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Every record in Deaf Smith County

Project name, developer, status, MW, in-service year and the developer’s contacts, for all 17 records. Filter, sort and export to Excel.

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County: Deaf Smith County, TXStatus: all except cancelledSort: MW, largest first 17 records
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