[Operator Instructions] First question comes from Derrick Whitfield with Texas Capital.

My first question, I wanted to start with the surface acquisitions you made in Shackelford and Jones Counties. While a bit of a step out, it's clear to us that it was bought on more than a hunch. How would you guys frame the opportunity with this kind of build-out in this project potential and the amount of revenue streams it could involve?

Yes. That's a good question, Derrick. I mean it is a little bit of a step out, but I mean, we think the power and compute opportunity in West Texas is enormous and broader than just the Permian and our legacy footprint. And so we've been doing diligence on that property for over a year now to make sure that it specs out. That area was interesting to a compute user that we've been working with for a while now. And so I think we've demonstrated to the tech community that our team has the expertise to locate land, water, gas resources even if it's outside of our legacy footprint. And so I think it just adds some flexibility to the value proposition of TPL. We're excited about it. We think we can replicate it. And I think the question about the value chain, it's very similar to our other properties and how we look at the oil and gas business. We want to be as involved in the project as we can while still being really capital light. And so land use, water, aggregates, just clipping coupons to the kind of the entire life cycle of that project so that we capture as much of the value chain as we possibly can.

Great. And then as my follow-up, I wanted to focus on the water desal, but specifically water desal for chip cooling. How would you frame the depth of interest you're seeing in your conversations with hyperscalers and AI labs, given the fact that it is water additive to the hydrologic cycle. I think it's a huge selling point that you guys have in your process.

Yes. I mean the interest in produced water and data center use is huge. And I think it's not just one stream. When you look at it, just -- let's start with just the consumptive piece. I think there still is some evaporative cooling and adding adiabatic assist that is water consumption that goes into data center, not just chip cooling, but building cooling. Obviously, that's your first one that everybody hits on because it is water that's not in the hydrologic cycle. Next, you move into something that's more specific to our technology that we're in a lot of discussions with a couple of hyperscalers and AI labs on, and that's using our freeze technology for direct chip cooling. If you look at the heat transfer that a hyperscaler uses for direct chip, it's a fraction of the heat transfer that we look at when we're getting this water down to sub-15 degrees Fahrenheit to be able to remove the salts from the water. So that's another fit. All of it goes towards a water positivity or water neutrality goal, a couple of other aspects that we're chasing just to reduce that consumption on any municipal or type of traditional water sourcing that they typically use today.

Next question, Tim Rezvan with KeyBanc Capital Markets.

Derrick touched on the topics of interest to me, but I thought I'd follow up a little more on this acreage acquisition. I think a little bit of a surprise is that you all have almost 1 million surface acres already. I know the opportunity set is vast on power and compute. But should we be expecting potential like sizable acquisitions like this in the future? I guess the idea is how much of the opportunity can you leverage off your existing footprint versus needing to buy more?

Yes. Look, we're looking at it the same way we did when we started the water business, right? The primary objective is to develop the existing resource that we already have, but we're simultaneously looking for other opportunities. Like I mentioned, I think the opportunity set here is beyond our legacy footprint. And so why let someone else capture that value. And so very similar to how we've built the water business, like I said, we are looking at both options simultaneously. And I would just say like we're in advanced conversations with multiple hyperscalers, AI labs and power generators on 25 gigawatts of projects right now. I would be disappointed if we don't announce at least one or more major definitive agreements in the near term. So with an opportunity set like that, that's growing by the week, we feel like we owe it to our shareholders to look outside of our existing footprint.

Okay. Okay. That's good context, especially on the scale, 25 gigawatts is a big number. If I could switch gears a little bit. Produced water royalty volumes, you touched on it. It was a record in the second quarter. And looking at sort of the revenue per barrel, it was at the high end, about over $0.08 a barrel. Should we be modeling that to continue to kind of ramp? I mean we know the broader trends in the business, but just kind of curious how you see that trending over the next year or 2.

Well, we've got price escalators built in our existing contracts. And I think pore space will become more valuable over time. I would say the one caveat is transportation royalties are typically a little less than an actual pore space injection royalty. And so as that mix changes, you should see that royalty kind of stay steady to increasing over time.

Okay. I appreciate that. If I could just ask one more question on your minerals business. It's biggest revenue component, but probably the least discussed segment. We saw oil tick down about 5% in the second quarter, which is a little contrary to sort of comments from large operators about pulling volumes forward into higher oil prices. So can you comment on kind of maybe what happened and maybe how you see oil volumes trending amid the rig ramp in the Permian?

Yes, Tim. I think there's a couple of factors. One, I think I would just start by saying I don't think the lower oil percentage is a near-term trend for us. I think kind of this quarter and even last quarter to some extent was a bit unique. There's probably some accounting noise as some of our new acquisitions come online. We also just had a lot of heavy development that was occurring late last year, really throughout 2025 in areas that are pretty gas-rich including one of our other acquisitions. A couple of our acquisitions were some really high-interest wells in Culberson County were drilled over a pretty short time frame. And so I think our expectation is we were kind of mid-30% oil cuts. I do think that's going to trend back up. And if you look at it as a more normalized long term, it should get back up 40% plus over time. So really more kind of something unique to TPL. And the reality is even as diversified as our royalty interests are the way that people operate, they can park a rig and a completion crew in an area and can affect some of the mix with drilling a whole bunch of 3- and 4-mile laterals, the production that comes online can be significant. And so there's a lot of different factors that I think led to the -- what we might see as a pretty high gas cut. But I do think we will see both that oil trend back up and become a more meaningful part of the production mix on a go-forward basis.

Next question, Oliver Huang with Tudor, Pickering.

Just wanted to hit on, I guess, thoughts around the buyback. I mean, I know there have been some royalty bolt-ons over the past 12 to 18 months in addition to the land acquisition here. But it's been several quarters since there's been anything meaningful on the buyback front. Just trying to get a better understanding how does this reflect your current view of where the equity sits from a valuation perspective? Is this something that's being purposely done just to build capital for bigger near-term asks across whether it be royalty M&A, land, power and desal investments?

Yes. Right now, there's a lot of really good opportunity set as we've seen the Shackelford acquisition is one of those. And I think one of our big thoughts when it comes to capital allocation is kind of putting those dollars toward best and highest use. And we just continue to see a lot of great opportunities out there where we feel like we want to be kind of in that cash build mode for now. And that's not to say that in the future, we retain the right to go out and do buybacks if that at the time becomes what we would view as a very attractive use of capital. And so it is always on our mind. We are always considering that as a way to deploy our capital. As we sit here today in the environment that we're in right now, building cash seems like and deploying it for some of these other opportunities is kind of where we want to focus. But buybacks are always on the table and something we're constantly looking at.

Okay. Perfect. Maybe just a follow-up on desal. Apologies if I missed it earlier, but just any sort of color in terms of just initial takeaways? How is what you all seen early on just kind of changed your conviction level in terms of what next steps might be? And what should we kind of be watchful for on that front?

If anything, over the time, our belief that beneficial reuse and produced water desal will take hold as part of that mix only grows stronger. I think if you look at total water production, it continues to climb. It will continue to climb as you get into some of these Tier 2 zones that just have a higher water cut. So we were some of the first early adopters to why we are where we are and ahead of the industry in the facility is because we knew it was going to be part of that takeaway mix. That belief only gets stronger. I think what helps even strengthen that further is the interest we're seeing from the hyperscalers and the AI labs for eventually implementing this into a sourcing mix as we see the compute build-out in West Texas. To note, we're done in build. We're commissioning. Actually, on Monday, we will be hosting our grand opening and ribbon cutting at the facility. The interest we're seeing not just from the operators, we'll be attending legislators, regulators, but also multiple hyperscalers that will be on site with us on Monday as we commission the facility.

Awesome. Maybe one more follow-up, if I could squeeze it in. Just kind of on your earlier comments with working with the compute user in the Shackelford, Jones County area. Any sort of color as to how quickly you can recycle the opportunity set into actual revenue dollars that start to come through the financial statements?

Repeat the last part of that question, sorry.

Just how quickly could we start seeing actual revenue dollars start to come through the financial statements given that specific opportunity set?

Yes. Like I said, that's one that we've been working on for a while. We're a year into diligence. We're working with Bolt to develop that project. We've already started working with the local communities there on tax abatements and other things that are kind of like the tail end of the diligence process. So that's one that I would be very disappointed if we don't have a definitive agreement to announce in the very near term.

Yes. Real quick follow-up on what we see as this opportunity and how we're preparing for it. When we look at the near-term sourcing mixes that we're looking for these data centers and what we need to do to prepare for it, the water sourcing is varied. The eventual goal is to get produced water into data center usage. But near term, we know that we have to build out a team and build out systems for the non-potable construction water usage, the potable water that goes into the man camps. And even as far as the demand water that's used in the closed-loop system. So when we look at that, we know we've got to build a new division, a new team around that, bring in folks that the chemist of the world and these direct chip design guys, cooling design, closed-loop systems. So it's moving fast. It's moving rapidly, as Ty said, it kind of is growing by the week right now as we see the interest in West Texas compute.

Thank you. This concludes today's teleconference. You may disconnect your lines at this time, and we thank you for your participation.