Start-up energy developer Fermi America has submitted a partial combined license application to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) for a four-unit AP1000 plant in Texas, the US nuclear regulator revealed in a Jul. 2 filing. This is part of the plans Fermi revealed last week to build a hyperscale data center on a nearly 5,800 acre campus outside Amarillo, Texas, ultimately fueled by 11 gigawatts of nuclear, solar and natural gas-fired plants. "This is the perfect place to build the world's largest data center," Fermi cofounder Rick Perry, former US energy secretary and Texas governor, told an interviewer, noting the site's proximity to the US government's Pantex nuclear weapons facility, a digital fiber-optic network and a gas pipeline. Fermi hopes to commission 1 GW of gas-fired capacity next year, and Chairman Toby Neugebauer told the Washington Post that the company hopes to commission its first nuclear plant by 2032. NRC staff is "completing the initial assessment" of the Fermi filing, which labels the plans "Project Matador" and the broader complex the "President Donald J. Trump Advanced Energy and Intelligence Campus. "