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Silicon Valley is building a shadow power grid for data centers across the U.S.
February 20, 2026/
- Cleanview has identified 47 behind-the-meter projects across the country from major hyperscalers including Meta, OpenAI, Oracle, and Chevron.
- One West Virginia project is permitted to generate several times the state’s total residential electricity consumption. A single Texas project, GW Ranch, will consume more power than Chicago—without a single new transmission line.
- Former DOE loan chief Jigar Shah called the strategy “a fairy tale concocted on the back of a napkin”—but still, billions of dollars have already been invested and several of these projects are already under construction.
