New Era Energy & Digital, Inc. (Nasdaq: NUAI) (“NEED” or the “Company”), formerly New Era Helium, Inc., today announced that Texas Critical Data Centers LLC (“TCDC”), its 50/50 joint venture with Sharon AI, has signed a non-binding term sheet with Thunderhead Energy Solutions LLC to install a fully operational, behind-the-meter 250 MW power island for its planned hyperscale AI data center site in Ector County, Texas.
Under the agreement, Thunderhead will finance, construct, and operate approximately 250 MW of gas-fired generation capacity using a hybrid deployment of reciprocating engines and turbines. Construction is expected to begin later this year, with the buildout targeted for completion over the next 18 months. This power infrastructure will serve as the energy backbone for TCDC’s high-performance, AI-optimized compute campus.
E. Will Gray II, CEO of New Era Energy & Digital, Inc. commented: “The agreement with Thunderhead is one more major milestone in our buildout and reinforces our vision of delivering energy-resilient, AI-native infrastructure. It also ensures TCDC will provide robust, SB6-compliant power to support the next wave of AI growth in West Texas.”
Wolf Schubert, CEO of Sharon AI said: “We are pleased to announce the agreement with Thunderhead for a fully outsourced power island at the site, which continues to build on the multilateral power strategy being deployed to power the TCDC campus,”
Brennan Zaunbrecher, Founder & Principal of Thunderhead Energy Solutions stated: “We are excited to partner with Texas Critical Data Centers on this groundbreaking 250MW AI data center project in the Permian Basin. This partnership allows us to leverage the region’s abundant natural gas resources to deliver reliable, scalable energy solutions supporting growing digital infrastructure demand through a world-class asset. We look forward to working closely with TCDC and the customer to bring this innovative project to fruition, and to establishing a new standard for AI infrastructure development optimized from resource to compute.”
The Thunderhead partnership is another critical step in enabling TCDC to deliver hyperscale GPU infrastructure to a growing pipeline of AI clients, hyperscalers, and compute partners.
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