US EditionGoogle plans $40 billion Texas data center investment amid AI boom
- On Nov. 14, 2025 Google announced a $40 billion investment to build three new data centers in Texas at its Midlothian data center campus, attended by Sundar Pichai and Gov. Greg Abbott.
- Officials said the funding targets workforce and community programs to create jobs and provide training, including more than 1,700 apprentices by 2030, supporting U.S. leadership in AI.
- One center will be sited in Armstrong County near Amarillo and two in Haskell County near Abilene, using advanced air-cooling technology and pairing one Haskell site with a solar-plus-battery plant from INtersect and TPG Rise Climate.
- The company said funding will support AI, cloud and energy infrastructure and include a $30 million Energy Impact Fund starting next year, while Gov. Greg Abbott noted Google added five gigawatts of net new power.
- Competition from other AI firms is accelerating investment in Texas as ERCOT projects peak electricity demand could more than double in coming years, while UT Austin expert Joshua Rhodes warned, 'I just don't think we can physically build that much infrastructure that fast.
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Google to build three new data centers in Texas in $40 billion investment
By Paul Cobler, The Texas Tribune November 14, 2025 Google on Friday announced a $40 billion investment in Texas in the form of three new data centers in West Texas and the Panhandle. The announcement by Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai, who was joined by Gov. Greg Abbott in Midlothian, is the latest multibillion dollar investment in Texas by tech companies racing to build infrastructure that can support advanced AI models. Google will b…
(AFP) Google announced on Friday an investment of $40 billion in Texas for the development of artificial intelligence (AI), amid an expansion of technological giants in this territory of the southern United States.Read more]]>
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