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Start-up Led By Several Retail Energy Vets Executes Purchase & Sale Agreements, Strategic Partnership To Advance Three Natural Gas-Powered AI Infrastructure Campuses Totaling 1.6 GWs In ERCOT
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Texas Energy Group (TEG) announced the execution of purchase and sale agreements (PSAs), "to advance development across three flagship energy and AI data center infrastructure campuses in Central Texas, together with a strategic partnership with Tidal NRG to accelerate execution and expand scalable delivery of dispatchable power and AI-ready infrastructure throughout the region."
"Digital Infrastructure Group is supporting the initiative in an advisory capacity focused on commercialization and digital infrastructure planning," TEG said
Located near the Austin metro area along the I-35 Innovation Corridor, the three campuses collectively represent approximately 1.6 gigawatts of planned capacity across phased buildouts, combining grid-supplied power with high-efficiency on-site natural gas generation to serve hyperscale, AI-driven compute, cloud, and high-performance computing (HPC) requirements.
"The PSAs and partnership framework position TEG and Tidal NRG to move rapidly from site control into disciplined execution—advancing engineering, infrastructure design, and delivery sequencing to meet near-term customer timelines. The portfolio is intended to serve as a scalable platform for continued expansion, supporting additional sites and phased deployments across Central Texas as demand accelerates," TEG said
"The execution of PSAs across all three locations and our strategic partnership with Tidal NRG represent a major step forward in our execution cycle," said Waylan Johnson, President of Texas Energy Group. "We are advancing a portfolio built around certainty of power, certainty of schedule, and certainty of delivery -- while maintaining long-term energy optionality for Texas."
"TEG’s development approach pairs high-efficiency natural gas-powered on-site generation with longer-term infrastructure optionality, enabling reliable near-term delivery while preserving flexibility for future grid interconnection and next-generation energy technologies. This dual-track strategy is designed to help meet accelerating AI-driven demand while supporting ERCOT reliability objectives," TEG said
"TEG and Tidal NRG will operate as an integrated execution platform -- aligning diligence, engineering, delivery planning, and commercialization to compress timelines and deliver customers a unified solution spanning site control, power strategy, and infrastructure execution," TEG said
See background on TEG, which is led by several Texas retail energy veterans, here
Tidal NRG is described as an energy infrastructure developer focused on delivering scalable, dispatchable power solutions for AI data centers and mission-critical digital infrastructure.
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January 19, 2026
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