TexAmericas Center and Potentia Development advance Project Big Pine

TexAmericas Center announced the advancement of Project Big Pine, a campus-scale, mission-critical infrastructure platform planned on approximately 500 acres within TexAmericas Center on the Texas side of the Texarkana MSA.

Positioned for phased delivery, Project Big Pine is designed to serve data centers, AI infrastructure, and other power-intensive commercial users that require scale, speed, and operational certainty. The project represents an estimated $3.5 billion in projected investment and approximately 120 permanent jobs at full operational scale. With core site due diligence completed and surveys underway, the project has moved from origination into active development execution.

Project Big Pine is being advanced around one of the market’s most important differentiators: the ability to align site readiness with user start-of-operations requirements. The campus is designed around a behind-the-meter prime power strategy paired with battery storage, creating a development pathway intended to reduce dependence on long-lead grid timing while preserving interconnection to scale over time. In parallel, the project has entered the applicable utility study and queue process with the Southwestern Electric Power Company (AEP-SWEPCO) in the Southwest Power Pool (SPP) territory for long-term transmission access and future phased utility augmentation. A 345-kV transmission line abuts the site.

“The first question serious users and infrastructure investors ask is simple: when can the power turn on?” said Carl Quesinberry, CEO of Potentia Development. “Project Big Pine is being structured to answer that question with greater certainty, greater control, and greater flexibility than many competing sites in the market today. We are targeting 24-30 months to energize.”

Beyond power, the project offers the broader infrastructure profile required by sophisticated mission-critical users. Project Big Pine benefits from robust natural gas availability, a regional water solution to support large-format industrial demand, and near-net high-capacity fiber connectivity capable of supporting hyperscale and other latency-sensitive operations.

Project Big Pine also benefits from a layered incentive environment that includes Foreign Trade Zone No. 258, Opportunity Zone designation (2017), New Markets Tax Credit eligibility, No Municipal Property or Freeport Taxes, multiple jurisdiction Goods-In Transit Exemption, Texas Enterprise Zone designation, and the Texas Large Data Center Sales and Use Tax Exemption.

TexAmericas Center’s role as the single local permitting authority further strengthens the site’s development profile by reducing approval friction and providing a more coordinated entitlement pathway than is often available in primary markets.

“Project Big Pine reflects the kind of forward-looking, infrastructure-ready development that today’s mission-critical users demand,” said Scott Norton, CEO of TexAmericas Center. “By combining speed-to-power strategies with our fully coordinated entitlement environment and long-term scalable expansion capacity, we are positioning TexAmericas Center and the Texarkana region to compete for some of the most transformative commercial investments in the country. This project underscores our commitment to delivering certainty, scalability, and strategic advantages to companies building the next generation of data, AI, and advanced industrial operations.”

Project Big Pine is intended to provide a strategic platform for users seeking a scalable location where energy planning, industrial entitlement, and infrastructure coordination can move in step with capital deployment.