Carson County Commissioners Court approves a phased tax abatement agreement with Fermi America for the Project Matador HyperGrid campus
Carson County Commissioners Court approved a tax abatement agreement with Fermi America for the Project Matador HyperGrid campus in the Texas Panhandle. The agreement is two sided and pays the county on both ends of the same facility. Fermi pays 3 dollars per square foot of data center improvements and from 2,500 to 2,750 dollars per megawatt of generating capacity. County Judge Dan Looten said the agreement covers 15 phases and could extend up to 25 years. Each completed phase enters its own 10 year abatement. Yearly training with local EMS and first responders is written into the deal. This corner of the Panhandle sits in the Southwest Power Pool rather than ERCOT, so the ERCOT interconnection and reliability rules a Texas reader would assume do not govern here.
How to take part
The commissioners approved the agreement during a public meeting at which residents raised water use and nuclear questions. The Commissioners Court is the venue for any further phase approvals under the agreement.
Where
1 county. In Amarillo.
Timeline
- ordered
Date NewsChannel 10 reported the Carson County Commissioners Court approval of the abatement agreement. The exact meeting date was not confirmed against a county record.
- Today
How this decision moved
One dated line per check, oldest first. A line that says nothing changed means somebody looked and it had not.
- 2026-08-19
Checked and unchanged. The abatement agreement of October 27th still covers 15 phases with a possible extension to 25 years, at 3 dollars a square foot on the data center side.
- 2026-08-22
The abatement agreement itself is unconfirmed this run. What is confirmed is the electrical geography the item rests on. The Panhandle sits in the Southwest Power Pool rather than in ERCOT, which is why a plant here does not join the ERCOT queue.
- 2026-08-26
Checked and unchanged. The phased tax abatement agreement still stands and nothing later has been recorded against it.
- 2026-08-29
Checked and unchanged. The phased abatement agreement the court approved still stands and its phases still turn on buildings and generation being completed. No later court action alters it.
- 2026-09-02
The phased abatement stands as approved and the county has recorded no amendment to it.
- 2026-09-05
Carson County's phased abatement for the Fermi America development still stands. The station's account of the vote sits behind a wall that would not open, so the commissioners' own words are unconfirmed.
- 2026-09-07
The agreement now has a primary source behind it. The company's quarterly report to federal securities regulators, filed August 14th, 2026, states that Carson County approved a 10-year property tax abatement and established a reinvestment zone for the campus. That description and the Amarillo station's account of an agreement covering 15 phases that could extend for up to 25 years do not describe the same length. Neither document reconciles them. The county's own signed agreement is what would settle it and it is not published. The Amarillo station's own crawl rules now exclude automated readers, so its five quotes stand unconfirmed today.
- 2026-09-10
The company's own filing with the federal securities regulator is still published. It still records that Carson County approved a property tax abatement and established a reinvestment zone for the Project Matador campus in October 2025. It still describes that campus as the company's first, in Carson County, built around private grid generation. The Amarillo station's account still can't be read by an automated reader, so the phase count and the outer span it reports stay unconfirmed. The county's own signed agreement that would settle the difference is still not published.
- 2026-09-13
The abatement Carson County approved for the Project Matador campus is still described the same way in the company's own quarterly report to federal securities regulators.
- 2026-09-16
The phased abatement Carson County approved for the Fermi development is still in force. The company's own filings could not be read this run, so anything they might say about it is unconfirmed.
- 2026-09-19
The phased abatement agreement is still in force on the terms the court approved.
- 2026-09-24
Whether the phased abatement is still in force on the court's terms is unconfirmed this run. The report it is read from sits on a newsroom site whose exclusion file refuses the reader that checks it.
- 2026-09-26
The phased abatement for the Project Matador campus is still in force on the court's terms, and the company's own quarterly filing still describes it the same way.
- 2026-09-29
Carson County's abatement with Fermi America is unconfirmed on a fresh reading. The station that carried the vote bars this project's reader, so the terms rest on the last reading, and nothing on the record shows the court changing them.
- 2026-09-30
The company's own filing still describes the phased abatement agreement with the county as it did.
The evidence
Every fact above rests on one of these. The words are the source's own.
CARSON COUNTY (KFDA) — Carson County commissioners approved a tax abatement agreement with Fermi America during a public meeting for a major development project.Carson County approves tax abatement for Fermi America development Journalism · newschannel10.com
The abatement for the data centers is set at $3 per square foot and the generation side ranges from $2,500 to $2,750 per megawatt.Carson County approves tax abatement for Fermi America development Journalism · newschannel10.com
The abatement agreement covers 15 phases of development, but it could extend for up to 25 years.Carson County approves tax abatement for Fermi America development Journalism · newschannel10.com
"The abatement agreement we just signed was for 15 phases, so when they complete so many buildings and so much generation we will have a COD on that portion of that phase, and that phase will go into a 10 year abatement agreement," said Looten.Carson County approves tax abatement for Fermi America development Journalism · newschannel10.com
In the abatement, yearly training with local EMS and first responders is included as part of the agreement.Carson County approves tax abatement for Fermi America development Journalism · newschannel10.com
The SPP grid covers Oklahoma, Kansas, portions of Arkansas, Louisiana and the Texas Panhandle and parts of northeast Texas, including the cities of Amarillo, Lubbock, Texarkana, Longview and Marshall.Southwest Power Pool (SPP) — Association of Electric Companies of Texas Primary source, official · aect.net
In October 2025, Carson County approved a 10-year property tax abatement and established a reinvestment zone for the Project Matador campus.Fermi Inc., Form 10-Q for the quarterly period ended June 30, 2026 Primary source, the company · sec.gov
The Company is developing its first campus, Project Matador, in Carson County, Texas, integrating approximately 11 gigawatts of private-grid power generation with large-scale AI data center infrastructure.Fermi Inc., Form 10-Q for the quarterly period ended June 30, 2026 Primary source, the company · sec.gov
Questions about this decision
Answered from the record itself. Every answer is assembled from stored fields, so an answer the record has no basis for is left out rather than guessed.
What is this decision?
Carson County Commissioners Court approved a tax abatement agreement with Fermi America for the Project Matador HyperGrid campus in the Texas Panhandle. The agreement is two sided and pays the county on both ends of the same facility. Fermi pays 3 dollars per square foot of data center improvements and from 2,500 to 2,750 dollars per megawatt of generating capacity. County Judge Dan Looten said the agreement covers 15 phases and could extend up to 25 years. Each completed phase enters its own 10 year abatement. Yearly training with local EMS and first responders is written into the deal. This corner of the Panhandle sits in the Southwest Power Pool rather than ERCOT, so the ERCOT interconnection and reliability rules a Texas reader would assume do not govern here.
Who decides it?
Carson County Commissioners Court decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
Can the public take part?
The commissioners approved the agreement during a public meeting at which residents raised water use and nuclear questions. The Commissioners Court is the venue for any further phase approvals under the agreement.
Where in Texas does it apply?
It covers Carson County in the Amarillo, TX area.
Has it been decided?
It has been decided. The dates on the item page carry when.
What happens next?
No future date is on the record. The last dated step on it was ordered on October 28th.
When did it start?
The earliest date on its record is October 28th, 2025.
What kind of decision is it?
It is filed under data centers.
What sources back it?
Three sources back it. Two of them are primary.
Is it on the ERCOT grid?
No. It sits outside the ERCOT interconnection.
When was it last checked?
Every fact on it was last verified against its source on September 30th, 2026.
Cite this
Texas AI Docket, Carson County Commissioners Court approves a phased tax abatement agreement with Fermi America for the Project Matador HyperGrid campus. Tracked since October 28th, 2025. Last verified September 30th, 2026. https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0046/. Reuse permitted under CC BY 4.0 with attribution. The same entry is in the docket JSON as item tx-2026-0046.
Beat
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