Project dossier · Haskell County (+ Armstrong Co.), Texas

Google West Texas campuses Approved

Part of Google's $40B Texas investment through 2027: AI data-center campuses in Haskell County (one paired with a new Intersect/TPG solar + battery storage plant) and Armstrong County, plus additional sites in Pampa and Wilbarger Counties. Company-owned and proceeding, not a contested local rezoning.

Key facts

Operator: Google
Owner: Google
Tenant: Google
Location: Haskell County (+ Armstrong Co.), Texas
First proposed: 2025-11-14
Decided: 2025-11-14
Stage today: Approved

Source
read 2026-08-08

What to do next

Next step: Approved — pivot from stopping it to a binding CBA: enforceable caps on noise, water and cost, plus a community benefit.

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What has happened so far (14 events)

2024-12-10financing
Intersect Power announced a strategic partnership with Google and TPG Rise Climate, backed by over $800 million in funding, to co-locate data centers with clean energy generation, with the first project (later identified as Quantum in Haskell County) expected operational in 2026. · source
2025-05-01construction
Crusoe Energy began construction in May 2025 on Google's Armstrong County data center campus on 1,300 acres near Claude, Texas, according to Armstrong County Judge Adam Ensey. · source
2025-11-04coverage
KTXS reported that Google had purchased multiple properties near Lake Stamford for a data center, and that three new RV parks had been built in the past year to house workers, though Google had not yet formally announced the project. · source
2025-11-14announcement
Google announced a $40B Texas investment through 2027, including AI data-center hubs in Haskell and Armstrong Counties. · source
2025-11-14announcement
Governor Abbott and Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced Google's $40 billion Texas investment at an event in Midlothian, calling it Google's largest investment in any U.S. state, with three new data center campuses in Haskell and Armstrong Counties. · source
2025-11-24coverage
ABC7 Amarillo reported that Google's Armstrong County data center is being built by Crusoe Energy on 1,300 acres near Claude, TX, with construction underway since May 2025, 80-100 jobs expected, and completion targeted for late 2028 or early 2029. · source
2025-11-25coverage
Haskell County leaders gave mixed reactions to Google's plan: Mayor Isbell welcomed economic growth, while County Judge Thompson acknowledged concerns about agricultural land conversion but said renewable energy resources drove Google's site selection. · source
2025-11-26coverage
NewsChannel 6 reported that Haskell County's tax base of $800 million was expected to more than double from the Google data centers, with County Judge Kenny Thompson and Mayor Christina Isbell citing growth potential for the 3,000-person town. · source
2026-02-05hearing
Google held a two-hour community open house at the Museum of the West Texas Frontier in Stamford, fielding questions on water, roads, housing, and environmental impacts of its two Haskell County data centers. · source
2026-02-24announcement
Google announced a new air-cooled data center in Wilbarger County, Texas, co-located with AES clean energy generation under 20-year PPAs, as part of its broader West Texas expansion. · source
2026-05-27coverage
Stamford Mayor James Decker said the city is experiencing its first simultaneous multi-house construction since the 1980s, with rezoning for triplexes and revenue directed to street, water, sewer, and park improvements. · source
2026-06-01operational
The Quantum Clean Energy Project (640 MW solar, 1.3 GWh battery storage) in Haskell County began operations in June 2026, co-located with a Google data center campus. · source
2026-06-04announcement
Google and Intersect announced the Meitner Energy Center in Gray and Roberts Counties, a 1 GW-plus co-located data center and wind/solar/battery generation complex, with construction running through December 2027. · source
2026-06-23construction
Construction began on the Journey 2A data center building (210,420 sq ft) at the Haskell County 'Journey' campus, with a target completion in late October 2026. · 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.

Texas TCEQ — Air Permits DivisionThe program page: which permits this state requires, and the office that issues them.
TCEQ Central RegistrySearchable public filings — search the operator, the shell LLC on the deed, and the address.

County & town filings

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

Search Haskell County (+ Armstrong Co.) planning filingssearchPlanning departments post application files under many different names. Find the department, then ask the clerk for the application number — that number unlocks everything else.
Search Haskell County (+ Armstrong Co.) property records / GISsearchThe parcel record names the buying LLC and the sale date, which is what ties an anonymous filing to an operator.

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.

ERCOT (Texas) — interconnection queueRequested megawatts, queue position and target in-service date. The MW here is the real number; the one at the town meeting is often phase one.
Public Utility Commission of Texas — docket searchSpecial contracts, large-load tariffs and rate cases are docketed here. Testimony and exhibits are public, and are usually more candid than the press release.
FERC eLibraryFederal filings: transmission agreements, interconnection service agreements, and co-location disputes.
Search the serving utility for a will-serve lettersearchThe will-serve or load-service letter is the utility's own written commitment. Ask the utility and the PUC for it by name — it is frequently the first document to exist.

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 33.160, -99.730 — 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.

Around here

Texas briefing — rates, grid carbon, PUC contacts.

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Coreweave Helios — Afton (Dickens County), 63 mi Operating

Cite this page: GridWatch AI, “Google West Texas campuses”, aigridwatch.com/projects/google-haskell-county-tx, retrieved 2026-10-11.

As of August 2026 (2m ago) · changes weekly — re-check before citing

A working set of identified proposals a community can track, not a census — most of the country's activity is not in here yet. Pennsylvania is the exception: its rows are synced from PA DEP's own data-center permit tracker, so the state's coverage is close to complete and carries the permit trail with it. **Each row carries its own provenance.** Rows showing a verification date link to reporting or the governing body's own record and were read on that date; rows marked *unverified* have no source on record — a lead to check, not a fact to cite. **Stage is derived, not asserted.** *Hearing scheduled*, *Awaiting decision*, *Approved* and *Withdrawn* are computed from each row's milestone dates on every rebuild, so a hearing date that has passed stops reading 'scheduled'. Hearings get moved and projects re-file under new names — treat a scheduled date as the earliest to act by, and confirm with the clerk before relying on it. Leads are mined into data/project_candidates.json and promoted here only after a human reads a primary source.

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