Project dossier · Claude (Armstrong County), Texas

Goodnight Operating

Data center by Google in Claude (Armstrong County), Texas. Operating.

Key facts

Operator
Google
Owner
Google
Tenant
Google DeepMind
Location
Claude (Armstrong County), Texas
Stage today
Operating

Source
read 2026-08-14

What to do next

Next step: Already operating — the leverage now is enforcement: noise and water conditions, tax revenue tracking, and any expansion filing, which reopens the record.

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What has happened so far (13 events)

  • 2024-01-01operational
    Serena Energy's 265.5 MW Goodnight Wind farm came online in 2024 adjacent to the Goodnight campus site, Latitude Media reported, later becoming the basis for Crusoe's co-location proposal. · source
  • 2025-05-01construction
    ABC7 Amarillo reported that construction on the Armstrong County data center began by Crusoe Energy in May 2025, with completion anticipated by late 2028 or early 2029. · source
  • 2025-10-01filing
    In late October 2025, Crusoe and Goodnight Wind submitted a co-location (net metering) proposal to the Public Utility Commission of Texas under SB 6, seeking to share a single interconnection point between the 265.5 MW wind farm and the first phase of the data center, Latitude Media reported. · source
  • 2025-10-17vote
    NewsChannel10 reported Armstrong County commissioners unanimously approved an amendment to Crusoe's tax abatement agreement, with the project scaled back from an original seven buildings on 350 acres to as few as three or four, and the county to receive $1.35 million per year per building in payments once each is operational. · source
  • 2025-11-14announcement
    Google CEO Sundar Pichai, alongside Governor Greg Abbott in Midlothian, announced a $40 billion Texas investment including a new data center in Armstrong County and two in Haskell County, the Texas Tribune reported. · source
  • 2025-11-24announcement
    ABC7 Amarillo reported Google's data center in Armstrong County will pull power off the ERCOT grid, use a closed-loop recirculating cooling system, and create 80 to 100 jobs, with Google serving as tenant, per County Judge Adam Ensey. · source
  • 2026-01-01filing
    Crusoe Energy filed a 465-page application with TCEQ in January 2026 to build a 933 MW off-grid natural gas power plant at the Goodnight campus designed to power at least two buildings, which could emit up to 4.5 million tons of CO2 per year, exceeding San Francisco's entire annual emissions, Yahoo/The Guardian reported. · source
  • 2026-03-15financing
    In mid-March 2026, Crusoe sold the wind-co-located portion of the Goodnight campus to Ensign Infrastructure, a Delaware-incorporated special purpose vehicle, Latitude Media reported. · source
  • 2026-03-18coverage
    NewsChannel10 reported a grass fire near Claude, sparked when a vehicle left County Road 19 and caught fire, spread to 251 acres, prompting evacuation of the data center about half a mile away and threatening five homes. · source
  • 2026-03-27ruling
    The Public Utility Commission of Texas adopted final net metering rules for co-located data centers of 75 MW or larger under SB 6, requiring mandatory emergency curtailment within 30 minutes and prohibiting co-located loads from demand response programs, Latitude Media reported on April 3. · source
  • 2026-04-02report
    Cleanview founder Michael Thomas reported that satellite imagery showed construction of Crusoe's 933 MW gas plant at the Goodnight campus was 'well underway,' calling it 'one of the first direct investments in fossil fuel infrastructure' by Google, as covered by Yahoo/The Guardian. · source
  • 2026-04-07filing
    Yahoo/The Guardian reported that Crusoe filed in January 2026 to build a 933 MW on-site natural gas power plant at the Goodnight campus that could emit up to 4.5 million tons of CO2 per year, and that Google spokesperson Chrissy Moy said 'We don't have a contract in place for the plant in Texas.' · source
  • 2026-07-30construction
    Construction Review Online reported the Goodnight campus (filed as GN DC1, LLC and internally called Project Llano) had grown to a $29 billion-plus, seven single-story-building project, with buildings 3 and 4 (about $500 million each) among those under construction and a nuclear-powered deployment targeted for 2027. · source

Find the paper trail

Find the paper trail (0 filed · 11 places to look)

State environmental permits

Backup generators, water withdrawal and stormwater are permitted by the state, usually earlier and in more detail than anything filed locally.

County & town filings

The rezoning application, site plan, traffic and noise studies, staff report and every revision.

Utility & grid records

The electricity request is filed with the grid operator and the utility long before the town hears about it — and states the real load.

Federal databases

Works anywhere, and covers the operator's record at its other sites.

  • EPA ECHO facility searchEvery federally-reported air, water and waste permit at a facility, plus its inspection and violation history. Search by address or draw a radius around the site. This project's locality centres on 35.040, -101.210 — search that point with a 5-mile radius.
  • EPA EnvirofactsThe same underlying records, queryable by county — useful for 'what else is permitted near this site' rather than one facility.
  • EPA Facility Registry ServiceResolves the shell LLC on a permit to the facility it belongs to. Worth a look when the filing name means nothing locally.

These are places to look, not evidence that anything has been filed. Links were checked on 2026-08-21; search links are queries, not records. What to ask for.

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Cite this page: GridWatch AI, “Goodnight”, aigridwatch.com/projects/goodnight, retrieved 2026-10-11.

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