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Google Commits $40 Billion to Texas AI Buildout With Three New Data Center Campuses Through 2027

Google frames the package as tying data‑center growth to new energy supply plus local investments to keep expansion manageable.

Overview

  • The company will build one campus in Armstrong County and two in Haskell County, while expanding its existing Midlothian site and Dallas cloud region.
  • Google says it has contracted more than 6,200 megawatts of new generation and capacity for Texas through PPAs with developers including AES, Enel, Interset and X‑Elio, and it launched a $30 million Energy Impact Fund.
  • One Haskell County campus will be co‑located with a new solar‑plus‑battery plant in an industrial park developed with Interset and TPG Rise Climate to temper grid impacts.
  • Workforce plans include training more than 1,700 electrical apprentices in Texas by 2030 through the electrical training ALLIANCE, with officials touting thousands of jobs tied to the buildout.
  • Community and infrastructure measures include advanced air‑cooling for the facilities, $2.6 million for wetlands restoration to enhance up to 1,000 acres and deliver roughly 300 million gallons of freshwater annually, and commitments made as ERCOT warns of steep demand growth and the state enables curtailment of large users during emergencies.