Google takes over Crusoe's unfinished Wyoming data center site and plans to spend $17 billion on it

Google has acquired the data center site in southeast Wyoming that AI infrastructure developer Crusoe had been preparing, Crusoe said Friday, a day after Google announced it would invest $17 billion to build its first data center campus in the state. Neither company disclosed what Google paid. Crusoe said the sale completes its pre-development work on the project, which covered site selection, government approvals and a power strategy.

Crusoe and Blackstone-backed Tallgrass Energy announced the Laramie County campus in July 2025 as a 1.8-gigawatt development that could grow to 10 gigawatts. Google had reportedly raised concerns about the project's cost and construction timeline under Crusoe's management, and Crusoe said in June it had paused work at a customer's request. Google says it will build the campus with Tallgrass, Black Hills Energy, American Electric Power and Related Digital, including a planned 702-megawatt fuel-cell installation using Bloom Energy equipment that runs on natural gas, with carbon capture planned. Black Hills expects to begin electricity service in late 2027.

The two companies are still working together: Crusoe is developing another Google data center campus in Armstrong County, Texas, near Amarillo. Crusoe, valued at $30.9 billion after raising $3.9 billion in September, says it has more than 6 gigawatts of capacity contracted and over 40 gigawatts in its pipeline. Its customers include Oracle, OpenAI, Microsoft and Meta.