Chevron CFO Eimear Bonner said Project Kilby, a 2.67 GW behind-the-meter gas plant for Microsoft in West Texas, remains on track for first power in 2028 and full energization in 2031 despite Governor Abbott's data center permit pause. An oil major acting as power developer for a tech customer, off the grid queue.
Emro won a contract to build a procurement agent for GS Caltex covering about 2,700 small-value material purchases a year, The Elec reported. The agent is meant to run from request through quotation, supplier pick and purchase order, with unclear cases handed back to staff. Low-dollar, rule-heavy buying is where agents earn trust first. Separate from the GS Caltex troubleshooting agent already on the Feed.
Vivek Ramaswamy asked Ohio regulators to delay an 800 MW gas plant tied to a data center in Ashville, warning of future costs for ratepayers. Data center power plants are now an election issue, not just a grid engineering problem.
TechCrunch reports NVIDIA is in talks to guarantee debt for Nscale's West Virginia AI campus, whose first 460 MW building is contracted to Anthropic. Chip makers underwriting buildings and power is new; the talks are unsigned.