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DOE Announces Site Selection for Energy Infrastructure and AI Data Centers on Federal Lands

LCG, July 24, 2025--The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced the next steps in the Trump administration’s plan to accelerate the development of AI infrastructure by using Federal lands to lower energy costs and help power the global AI race, as previously outlined in President Trump’s Executive Orders on Accelerating Federal Permitting of Data Center Infrastructure, Deploying Advanced Nuclear Reactor Technologies for National Security, and Unleashing American Energy.

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Enbridge Announces 600-MW Solar Project in Texas to Power Meta Data Center Operations

LCG, July 22, 2025--Enbridge Inc. (Enbridge) today announced that it has reached a final investment decision on the Clear Fork solar project located near San Antonio, Texas. Meta Platforms, Inc. (Meta), has signed a long-term contract for all of the renewable power generated from the 600-MW project.

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Arizona Merchant Plant Construction Underway

LCG, Jan. 23, 2002--The Mesquite generating station is the second largest merchant plant now being built in Arizona.

Sempra Energy Resources, a subsidiary of Sempra Energy, is developing the plant, which is expected to have the first block of its overall capacity online by the middle of 2003. The combined-cycle plant will consist of two combustion turbines and a steam turbine, and is expected to produce at maximum output by early 2004. Each of the two blocks will be rated at 625 megawatts.

The Mesquite plant is located in southwestern Arizona, near Arlington. The other, largest merchant power plant being built in the state is the Gila River plant, which should be rated at 2,300 megawatts.
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