In the past decades, large scale surveys have discovered a large number of white dwarfs. For example, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Data Release 7 [5] lists about 20 000 spectroscopically confirmed new white dwarfs. More than just a number, the new discoveries revealed different flavors of white dwarfs, including a new class of pulsators [7] and a larger percentage of stars with a magnetic field [4]. The HET Dark Energy Experiment (HETDEX) will use the 9.2 m Hobby‐Eberly Telescope at McDonald Observatory and a set of 150 spectrographs to map the three‐dimensional positions of one million galaxies. The main goal of the survey is to probe dark energy by observing the recent universe (2⩽z⩽4). However, this unique, magnitude‐limited survey (V⩽22) will also provide a variety of by‐products. We expect to obtain spectra for about 10 000 white dwarfs in the next 3 to 4 years.