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Google will build its first data centre in Wyoming, a long-term investment of $17 billion in the state. The company announced the project on 5 November 2026.
The data centre will come up in Laramie County, in partnership with Tallgrass Energy, Black Hills Energy, American Electric Power (AEP) and Related Digital.
Power from fuel cells with carbon capture
Much of the power will come from a planned 702 MW fuel-cell development with carbon capture and storage (CCS), contracted with AEP. Google calls it a first-of-its-kind, commercial-scale fuel-cell project with carbon capture, and the largest planned development of its kind to date.
The fuel cells, made in the United States by Bloom Energy, convert natural gas into electricity through an electrochemical reaction. The carbon capture system is meant to capture a large majority of the project’s carbon emissions and store them permanently underground at Tallgrass’s nearby Eastern Wyoming Sequestration Hub. Google has not given a specific capture rate, so that figure is not stated here.
With this contract, Google says its total contracted carbon capture and storage capacity reaches nearly 1 gigawatt.
What Google has promised
Google says it will pay for 100% of the power the data centre uses, and cover grid upgrades driven by its growth. The facility will be air-cooled to cut water use. Google expects the investment to bring hundreds of millions of dollars in property tax revenue for Laramie County and School District 1 — that is a projection, not money already paid.
Timings
Power service is scheduled to begin in the second half of 2027, under Black Hills Energy’s contract, which runs to 2048. The 702 MW fuel-cell facility is expected to be fully operational by the end of 2028, and the project is expected to reach peak load in 2030. AEP plans to invest about $4 billion in the fuel-cell facility under a 20-year power purchase agreement with Google, disclosed on 14 October 2026.
Google has not given an opening date for the data centre itself.
Announced days after the US midterms
The announcement came two days after the US midterm elections, in which voters backed limits on data-centre development in 40 of 41 local ballot measures tracked by Ballotpedia. Fears of tighter scrutiny of data-centre and AI development have weighed on tech stocks this week.
Figures about the campus size that appear in some coverage — a 716-acre site called Project Tembo, or a 2.7 GW capacity — are not confirmed by Google and are not used in this post.
Sources: Google blog, 5 November 2026; Reuters, 5 November 2026; Securities.io; Interesting Engineering, 6 November 2026.
