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Rusk County, Texas

Rusk County, Texas has 14 power projects in the FieldProspects database: 8 operating plants totaling 3.5 GW and 6 planned projects totaling 1.1 GW. No data center record lists the county. Coal leads with 2.4 GW across 3 projects. No planned project is past its listed in-service date.

Data as of Grid region: ERCOTRefreshed monthly
14
power projects, planned and operating
1.1GW
planned generation, 6 projects
3.5GW
operating generation, 8 projects
0
planned projects past their listed in-service date
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Rusk County and its neighbors

Counties shaded by data center MW on record, planned to operating. 3 of its 7 neighboring counties have pages of their own. The rest are in the member database.

Panola Gregg Nacogdoches no data centers Shelby Smith Rusk no data centers Harrison no data centers Cherokee 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
32%

of the county's operating generation is in the queue as new capacity: 1.1 GW planned across 6 projects against 3.5 GW operating.

Operating generation3.5 GW
Planned generation1.1 GW

Technology mix

14 projects, 4.7 GW planned and operating

Coal2.4 GW3 projects, 51%
Natural Gas939.6 MW4 projects, 20%
Battery Storage711.2 MW3 projects, 15%
One other technology630.1 MW4 projects, 14%
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Power generation in the county

8 plants operate inside Rusk County, 3.5 GW. The queue adds 1.1 GW across 6 projects.

Figure 1

Operating and planned generation by technology

MW in Rusk County

OperatingPlanned
CoalOperating 2.4 GW 3 projects
Natural GasOperating 939.6 MW 4 projects
Battery StoragePlanned 711.2 MW 3 projects
SolarOperating 200 MW 1 project
SolarPlanned 430.1 MW 3 projects
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TechnologyStatusProjectsMW
CoalOperating32,379.6
Natural GasOperating4939.6
Battery StoragePlanned3711.2
SolarOperating1200
SolarPlanned3430.1
Operating: 3.5 GW. Planned: 1.1 GW. If every planned project is built, county generation would reach 4.7 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
0200400600 Snapshot year 201 2026 236 2027 402 2028 302 2029
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YearPlanned projectsMW
20261201.1
20272235.6
20282402.3
20291302.4
No planned project is past its listed year

Rusk County against its neighbors

None of the 3 neighboring counties with a page lists a data center record. Harrison County has the most operating generation among them, 1 GW.

CountyData center recordsData center MWOperating generation MWPlanned generation MWData center MW per MW operating
Rusk County this page 0
0
3,519
1,141 0x
Harrison County 0
0
1,043
2,909 0x
Cherokee County 0
0
713
1,325 0x
Nacogdoches County 0
0
114
1,677 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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Every record in Rusk County

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