Google to Invest $40 Billion in New Data Centers in Texas
Representative Jake Ellzey, a Republican from Texas, James Danly, US deputy secretary of energy, Greg Abbott, governor of Texas, Sundar Pichai, chief executive officer of Alphabet Inc., and Amanda Peterson Corio, global head of data center energy at Google, left to right, during a media event at the Google Midlothian Data Center in Midlothian, Texas on Nov. 14.
Photographer: Jonathan Johnson/BloombergAlphabet Inc.’s Google plans to invest $40 billion in three new Texas data centers, part of an effort to add artificial intelligence computing power in a state that’s also drawn multibillion investments from competitors such as OpenAI and Anthropic PBC.
The investment will be made through 2027, Google said in a statement Friday. One data center will be in Armstrong County, in the Texas panhandle, and two in Haskell County, a stretch of West Texas near Abilene. One of the Haskell facilities will be co-located with a new solar and battery energy storage plant designed to ease the impact on the power grid.