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Google

Google announces campuses and energy agreements under its own name. Its power agreements can serve wider grids.

Dated commitments & changes

transaction update

Crusoe reports Google's acquisition of its Wyoming site

Crusoe said Google acquired the southeast Wyoming site, ending Crusoe's pre-development role; Tallgrass helped develop its power strategy.

Southeast Wyomingsite acquisition reported complete
Sources and context

No price, IT capacity or commercial-operation date established by this release. Governmental approvals are a developer assertion; the individual approvals were not audited.

project approval

Hermantown approves Google agreements and local permit

MPR reported unanimous local approval of the development agreement, special-use permit and decommissioning plan at the October 30 meeting.

Hermantown, Minnesotalocal approvals reported
Sources and context

The article was published October 31; the meeting was Friday, October 30. An exact roll call and the executed agreements are unavailable in this record. Local approval does not settle separate electric-service review, litigation or construction readiness. This follows the October 19 terms announcement for the same project.

negotiated terms

Hermantown presents revised Google agreement terms

The city announced that Google had dropped its tax-abatement request and presented infrastructure, well-protection and decommissioning terms ahead of local approval.

$130MCity-described public infrastructure funded by developerValue in October 19 presentation; developer pays constructionCity of Hermantown, Minnesota ↗
$448,000/yearEstimated annual city tax with proposed abatementFull-buildout forecast at assumed unchanged rateCity of Hermantown, Minnesota ↗
$3M/yearEstimated annual city tax without abatementFull-buildout forecast at assumed unchanged rateCity of Hermantown, Minnesota ↗
$210MParent-company decommissioning obligationPresentation describes CPI-indexed obligation for 50 years after completionNot a cash deposit, tax receipt or total project construction budget. Final executed obligation not read.City of Hermantown, Minnesota ↗
Hermantown, Minnesotarevised terms announced
Sources and context

These revised terms were announced ahead of the October 30 approval. Figures describe presented terms and forecasts; the final executed agreement was not available for review. Infrastructure value, tax forecasts and decommissioning obligations measure different things and cannot be added as project spending or public revenue.

energy agreement

Google backs nuclear plant uprates

Google announced an agreement with Constellation to finance additional generation from existing nuclear facilities supplying the PJM grid.

890 MWAdditional nuclear generation capacityplanned generation uprateConstellation uprates supported by Google agreementstatedGoogle ↗
Nuclear plants in Illinois, Pennsylvania and New Jersey; PJM gridagreement announced
Sources and context

Target delivery is before the end of 2032. Plant locations do not establish data center locations. Generation capacity is not data center IT capacity.

utility regulation

Michigan conditionally approves DTE's Google service contracts

The MPSC conditionally approved special utility-service contracts for Google's planned Van Buren Township data center. Conditions address infrastructure costs, resource planning and protection of other DTE customers.

20 yearsProposed service-contract termPrimary Supply Agreement term described in the MPSC issue brief; approval remains conditional.Michigan Public Service Commission ↗
80 percentProposed minimum billing demandShare of contracted monthly demand billed as a minimum under the proposed agreement.Michigan Public Service Commission ↗
Van Buren Township, Wayne County, Michiganconditional approval
Sources and context

The MPSC regulates utility service; it does not decide local siting or construction permits. Acceptance of every condition and any later appeal were not independently verified.

construction update

Crusoe identifies Google's Armstrong County campus under construction

Crusoe confirmed its developer role and reported construction continuing after a June 2025 groundbreaking.

Armstrong County near Claude, Texasunder construction
Sources and context

September is the disclosure date, not the construction start. Adjacent wind-farm MW are generation capacity and are not assigned as campus IT load.

construction announcement

Google and Intersect announce Meitner construction

The partners announced a Texas data center alongside new wind, solar and storage, with onsite gas also planned for reliability.

>1 GWCo-located wind, solar and storageplanned mixed energy resourcesMeitner Energy Centergreater thanGoogle and Intersect ↗
Gray and Roberts counties, Texasconstruction announced
Sources and context

Mixed generation and storage capacity is not IT load or a constant power supply. The source provides no delivered compute amount.

site announcement

Google details its Montgomery County project commitments

Google announced energy and community commitments linked to a new data center in Montgomery County, Missouri.

>500 MWAdditional energy capacityplanned energy capacityAmeren Capacity Commitment Frameworkgreater thanGoogle ↗
Montgomery County, Missouriplanned
Sources and context

The energy figure is not the data center's IT load. The announcement does not establish commercial operation.

compute agreement

Anthropic expands its Google and Broadcom compute agreement

Anthropic announced additional TPU capacity, with most of the new compute to be located in the United States.

United States majority; sites not disclosedcontract announced
Sources and context

Capacity is expected to start arriving in 2027. No state allocation or exact domestic share is disclosed. The scope of this expansion and earlier partnership announcements has not been reconciled; the figures cannot be added.

site announcement

Google announces a Michigan data center and energy agreement

Google announced a data center plan in DTE's territory and said it was evaluating a Van Buren Township site.

2.7 GWNew grid resourcesplanned energy resourcesSolar, storage and flexibility serving the Michigan agreementstatedGoogle ↗
DTE service territory; Van Buren Township site under evaluationproposed
Sources and context

Grid-resource capacity is not the campus's IT load. Site selection and construction approval were not established by the announcement.