Google Takes Over Crusoe’s Unfinished Wyoming Data Center Project

Google is taking over an unfinished data center project in southeastern Wyoming after Crusoe confirmed Friday, Nov. 6, that it had sold the project. Google plans to invest $17 billion in the campus.

The sale price was not disclosed. Crusoe had initially sought Google as a customer for the site; Google is now taking over its development. The company’s previously announced $17 billion Wyoming data center plan included covering all electricity costs for the facility.

A separate proposed 702-megawatt fuel-cell project near Cheyenne was planned to supply some of that power under a 20-year agreement. American Electric Power has planned about $4 billion for the project.

Crusoe and Tallgrass announced the data center project last year, with plans to expand its power capacity to as much as 10 gigawatts. Crusoe began as a cryptocurrency mining business powered by natural gas that otherwise would have been burned off. It is also developing another data center for Google near Amarillo, Texas.