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Key Points:
- Eric Schmidt’s new company, Bolt Data & Energy, partners with Texas Pacific Land (TPL) to provide integrated land, power, and water infrastructure for hyperscale data center campuses in West Texas, leveraging TPL’s vast 882,000-acre landholdings and energy resources.
- Bolt aims to address the energy constraints limiting AI growth by combining natural gas, renewable energy, and future nuclear power to create scalable, resilient data center campuses that support American competitiveness in the global AI race.
- Texas Pacific Land’s extensive land and water assets, historically tied to oil and gas, are being repurposed to meet the growing demand for data center infrastructure as legacy regions saturate, with plans to build multi-gigawatt power capacity and multiple campuses
