Overview
- New campuses are planned for Armstrong County and two sites in Haskell County, with one Haskell facility co-located with a solar and battery storage plant.
- Google says it has contracted more than 6,200 megawatts of new generation and capacity for the Texas grid through PPAs with developers including AES, Enel North America, Interset and X-Elio.
- The company will support workforce pipelines by helping train existing electricians and more than 1,700 apprentices in Texas by 2030 through the electrical training ALLIANCE and Google.org’s AI Opportunity Fund.
- Texas leaders hailed the plan as Google’s largest investment in any U.S. state, with the announcement made in Midlothian alongside Gov. Greg Abbott and federal and company officials.
- Grid operators and researchers flag rapid load growth and water demands from data centers, with ERCOT forecasting sharp increases in peak demand and a new law allowing non-critical large users to be curtailed during grid emergencies.