Google Buys Crusoe’s Wyoming Site to Build Its Own

CHEYENNE, Wyo., Nov. 6 — GoogleGoogle has bought the site in southeast Wyoming where Crusoe, a Denver developer, had been preparing an AI data-center campus, Crusoe said on Friday. The sale completes Crusoe’s “pre-development work” on the project, it said, work that covered the choice of site, government approvals and a strategy for power. Google did not disclose what it paid, TechCrunch reported.

The day before, Google had announced its first data center in Wyoming, calling it a $17 billion investment. “We will pay for 100% of the power we use,” the company wrote.The Original PlanCrusoe and Tallgrass Energy announced the campus in July 2025 as a 1.8-gigawatt project, “designed to scale up to 10 gigawatts.” Neither Google nor Crusoe gave a size this week.

In June, Bloomberg reported, citing people familiar with the situation, that Crusoe was being pushed aside at the campus after failing to lock in customers including Google, which had raised concerns about the costs and timetable under Crusoe’s watch. Crusoe had announced that it had “paused” the plan, Bloomberg wrote. “The deal highlights how difficult it can be for independent data center developers to deliver massive projects on time and within budget, given the challenges of securing equipment and power,” TechCrunch wrote on Friday.

Crusoe’s account is that its part is done. “Crusoe’s pre-construction efforts – origination, entitlement, and de-risking – have set up the Wyoming project for construction and eventual operation,” Chase Lochmiller, its co-founder and chief executive, said in the release. He said Crusoe had “more than 6 GW contracted and over 40 GW in our pipeline.” It remains the developer of Google’s campus under construction in Armstrong County, Tex., outside Amarillo, and the Wyoming setback did not stop it raising $3.9 billion in September, TechCrunch noted.CrusoeAn eight-year-old developer based in Denver, recently valued at $30.9 billion, TechCrunch reported.

The Power

Google’s power plan includes a 702-megawatt fuel-cell development with carbon capture, contracted with American Electric Power and using fuel cells made by Bloom Energy; Google calls it the largest planned development of its kind. Google says “a large majority” of that development’s carbon emissions will be captured and stored underground at Tallgrass’s nearby Eastern Wyoming Sequestration Hub. Google will also source power from gas generators run by Tallgrass and Black Hills Energy. The data center will be air-cooled, to minimize strain on local water. Crusoe’s own plan for the site, by its account, combined fuel cells, grid power and natural-gas turbines.

Google expects the project to generate “hundreds of millions of dollars in local property taxes for Laramie County and School District 1.” It says it met more than 200 residents of Laramie County, and that it and its partners are setting up a Community Council on how data-center growth is affecting Cheyenne. Alphabet’s shares closed Friday at $284.78, up 0.78 percent on the day and 1.77 percent on the week.GOOGLNasdaq288.15▲3.37+1.2%Alphabet · Monday’s session

The Vote

Neither company’s announcement mentioned Tuesday’s elections. In at least 46 of the roughly 50 data-center measures on ballots this year, majorities voted to restrict data-center development, CNBC reported, citing Ballotpedia’s tally. On Friday, Kevin Hassett, director of the National Economic Council, said on CNBC’s “Squawk on the Street” that he expects data-center growth to continue as projected. “We respect the localities that decide that’s what they want to do,” Mr. Hassett said. “But America is a big place, and right now, the data centers scheduled over the next couple of years aren’t affected by these ballot initiatives.”

But America is a big place, and right now, the data centers scheduled over the next couple of years aren’t affected by these ballot initiatives.

President Trump wrote on Truth Social the same day, as quoted by CNBC: “As President, I am 100% in favor of Super Intelligence (SI), and will work with the many States in the U.S. that want to become RICH by having them.”

For the data centers due after the next couple of years, Mr. Hassett said, “there’s plenty of room in the U.S. for data center growth to continue, as it was projected ahead of the election.”