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Sandow Lakes Power / Data Center Campus

Sandow Lakes Power / Data Center Campus is an AI data center campus developed by Sandow Lakes Energy Company in Texas, Blue. 1.20 GW of capacity has been announced; none is energized yet. The gap is what this page tracks: what is claimed versus what is actually built, each figure dated and sourced.

Under construction · Sandow Lakes Energy Company · Former industrial site · ERCOT · Blue, Texas, United States

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Capacity: announced vs energized

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Under construction
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Energized
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Announced-to-energized gap: 1.20 GW. Every figure below is a single dated, sourced claim. Current best per series resolves by evidence tier, then date. See the methodology.

31st-largest announced of 102 tracked campuses73th percentile announced-to-energized gap≈ 972,000 homes of power at full announced capacity (basis)

Promised online: 2028. 27 months away. Claimed by Gemma Power Systems (source).

Sandow Lakes Power / Data Center Campus capacity claims
Source
Announced1.20 GW2025-10-01reportedpermit

Key facts

under construction

Lifecycle

1.20 GW

Announced

0 GW

Energized

Sandow Lakes Energy Company

Developer

United States

Location

ERCOT

Grid

former industrial site

Land

1.20 GW

Announced-to-energized gap

Reported facts

Structured facts sourced from citations already on this record. Each fact traces to a source in the References section below.

1.2 GW gas plant EPC (primary Argan / BusinessWire)
Argan, Inc. announced via BusinessWire (Feb 6 2025) that subsidiary Gemma Power Systems executed an EPC contract for a 1.2 GW ultra-efficient natural gas-fired power plant in Lee County, Texas, developed by Sandow Lakes Energy Company, with completion targeted for 2028 (Argan / BusinessWire, Feb 6 2025)
Notice to proceed / Siemens turbines (reported EnergyTech)
EnergyTech reported (Apr 9 2025) that Gemma received notice to proceed on the Sandow Lakes EPC, describing a combined-cycle station with two Siemens Energy SGT6-9000HL natural gas turbines (hydrogen-capable pathway), a Matterhorn pipeline tap, and Lee County / Giddings EDC interest in attracting data centers. Named data-center tenants were not disclosed (EnergyTech, Apr 9 2025)
NTP backlog confirmation (primary Argan / BusinessWire)
A follow-on Argan BusinessWire release (Apr 7 2025) confirmed Gemma received notice to proceed on the same 1.2 GW Lee County EPC with Sandow Lakes Energy Company, adding the project to Gemma's backlog. Treat plant MW as the generation project size; on-site IT load for any future data halls remains tenant- and phase-dependent (Argan / BusinessWire, Apr 7 2025)

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The deal

developer
Sandow Lakes Energy Company · Owns power plant via subsidiary
operator
Gemma Power Systems (Argan Inc.) · EPC contractor
construction
Siemens Energy · Turbine supplier: two SGT6-9000HL hydrogen-capable natural-gas turbines.

Power

Power source
behind the meter gas
Grid operator
ERCOT
Interconnection

Sandow Lakes Power Plant, 1.20 GW gas, Under construction. TCEQ air permit issued Oct 2025; Gemma/Argan NTP

The Texas (ERCOT) grid demand right now: 65.1 GW (EIA-930, 2026-10-02 01:00). Sandow Lakes Power / Data Center Campus's announced 1.20 GW would be 1.8% of the grid's current load.

County water status: Exceptional drought (D4) in Bryan County, week of 2026-09-29 (US Drought Monitor). Data centers are large water users for cooling; this is the neutral local water picture.

Why here

Sandow Lakes Power / Data Center Campus sits on former industrial site in Texas, Blue. It connects to the ERCOT grid, draws on behind the meter gas power. This siting summary is composed from the record's held fields, not speculation; see methodology.

Regulatory paper trail

The filings and rules on record for this site and its jurisdiction, most recent first. Each is a sourced, dated artifact you can follow to the primary document.

Timeline

  2. Aug 2026
    party added
    construction: e7d59434-cc22-4392-bfb2-817f64b171b5
  3. Oct 2026
    Current: Under construction

Sources

b26697a8-cfa3-4c44-9aa4-b37e912d9536 · Tracked with DEPLOY's verified-vs-claimed methodology. Every term is defined in the glossary. Announced numbers are claims, not built capacity.

Head-to-head

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Common questions

What is Sandow Lakes Power / Data Center Campus?
Sandow Lakes Power / Data Center Campus is an AI data center campus tracked on the DEPLOY registry, located in Blue. DEPLOY records its capacity as a dated, sourced ledger: announced gigawatts versus actually energized gigawatts, never a press-release total.
How much power will Sandow Lakes Power / Data Center Campus use?
Sandow Lakes Power / Data Center Campus has 1.20 GW of announced capacity on the DEPLOY registry; no energized capacity is yet recorded. Each figure is individually dated and sourced.
Who is building Sandow Lakes Power / Data Center Campus?
Sandow Lakes Energy Company is recorded as a party to Sandow Lakes Power / Data Center Campus on the DEPLOY registry.
Is Sandow Lakes Power / Data Center Campus operating yet?
As of the most recent verification on the DEPLOY registry, Sandow Lakes Power / Data Center Campus is under construction. DEPLOY tracks the lifecycle from announced through energized, so the current state reflects sourced evidence, not the original announcement.
How verified is the data on Sandow Lakes Power / Data Center Campus?
A human editor has reviewed this record for the indexed registry. Every capacity figure is an append-only, dated claim resolved to the highest-evidence tier; superseded claims are kept but excluded from the current view.

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DEPLOY. (2026). Sandow Lakes Power / Data Center Campus: AI data center campus record. Retrieved October 2, 2026, from https://registry.deploy.report/datacenters/sandow-lakes-lee-county-texas

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