Google Red Oak
Chip types: TPU v6e,TPU v7. Epoch AI estimates ~77 MW.
Key facts
- Operator
- Owner
- Size
- 77 MW
- Location
- Red Oak, Texas
- Stage today
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.
What has happened so far (6 events)
- 2023-08-31announcement
Google announced a new data center campus in Red Oak, Texas, its second site in Ellis County after Midlothian, with at least $600 million planned investment over multiple years and $330 million committed for 2023; the project was expected to create nearly 1,200 construction jobs and 30 permanent positions. · source - 2023-08-31incentive
Google awarded a $150,000 grant to Red Oak ISD to fund STEM expansion including Project Lead the Way engineering, robotics, and science initiatives at secondary schools, announced alongside the data center campus. · source - 2023-09-06coverage
Dallas Innovates reported Google's $600 million Red Oak data center would complement its existing Midlothian facility and the Dallas cloud region, with VP of Government Affairs Cris Turner stating the infrastructure supports AI innovations and Google Cloud business. · source - 2023-10-05incentive
Google awarded $100,000 grants each to the Red Oak and Midlothian public libraries; Red Oak's grant funded a makerspace with 3D printers and robotics technology for community STEM exploration. · source - 2024-08-15announcement
Google announced over $1 billion in Texas investment for 2024, targeting the Midlothian and Red Oak data center campuses, bringing its total Texas investment past $2.7 billion; the company also announced 375 MW of carbon-free solar power purchase agreements for ERCOT. · source - 2025-11-14operational
As part of a $40 billion Texas investment announcement through 2027, Google disclosed that the first building of its Red Oak campus in Ellis County is now operational; the broader plan includes new campuses in Armstrong, Haskell, and Wilbarger counties plus over 6,200 MW of new energy generation. · 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 Red Oak 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 Red Oak 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 32.520, -96.800 — 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.
Recent news
8 stories tracked since 2026-05-11 across 7 outlets. 4× A community is pushing back on a nearby data center. 2× The dispute has escalated into litigation. Most recent: “Gubernatorial independent Jenn Mack speaks against data centers in Red Oak” (Waxahachie Sun, 2026-10-01).
- Gubernatorial independent Jenn Mack speaks against data centers in Red Oak
- This Red Oak program is training workers for North Texas data centers
- RECAP: Gina Hinojosa Connects with Red Oak Residents Furious About Data Centers
- Red Oak resident files lawsuit against city for data center development
- Red Oak residents sue city, officials to stop data center project
- Red Oak residents renew opposition as Texas reviews data center boom
- Red Oak approves 830 acres rezoned for latest data center despite opposition
- Red Oak neighbors fight proposed data center over health concerns
Automated news aggregation, not human-verified — follow each link to the original outlet. Part of the story tracker, 8 headlines archived.
Around here
- Texas briefing — rates, grid carbon, PUC contacts.
Other tracked projects in Texas
- Compass Datacenters Red Oak campus — Red Oak (Ellis County), 0 mi Approved
- Google Midlothian — Midlothian, 11 mi Under construction
- CoreWeave Denton TX — Denton, 50 mi
- Project Red and Project Yellow — Hood County (Granbury area), 60 mi In review
- West Erwin Street data center (Barrio Resources) — Tyler (Smith County), 88 mi Denied
Cite this page: GridWatch AI, “Google Red Oak”, aigridwatch.com/projects/google-red-oak, 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.
Part of the data center project tracker — open data, CC BY 4.0 (JSON · CSV).