Google Acquires Crusoe’s Wyoming Data Center Site After $17 Billion Pledge

Denver, Colorado — Google has acquired the southeast Wyoming site that U.S. AI infrastructure company Crusoe had prepared for a large data center campus, ending Crusoe’s role in a project it first announced with Tallgrass Energy in July 2025.

Crusoe, which describes itself as the AI factory company and sells an energy-first model for AI infrastructure, announced the sale without disclosing a price. The company said the deal completes its pre-development work in Wyoming, which covered picking the data center site, securing government approvals and drawing up a power strategy.

The purchase came a day after Google announced its first data center in Wyoming, describing a long-term, $17 billion investment in Laramie County. Google named Tallgrass Energy, Black Hills Energy, American Electric Power (AEP) and Related Digital as its partners on that project. Crusoe was not on the list.

Chase Lochmiller, co-founder and CEO of Crusoe, said: “Crusoe’s pre-construction efforts – origination, entitlement, and de-risking – have set up the Wyoming project for construction and eventual operation. Crusoe is in the business of activating gigawatts for intelligence. With more than 6 GW contracted and over 40 GW in our pipeline, we are eager to steward the development and energization of the foundational infrastructure of AI.”

The contracted figure has grown since June, when Crusoe reported 4.9 gigawatts (GW) of contracted AI infrastructure across its data center projects and its Crusoe Cloud platform. At the time, it put its total pipeline, including sites in tenant talks and advanced development, at more than 40 GW.

In Wyoming, Crusoe and Tallgrass Energy built the plan by developing the power supply and the data center infrastructure side by side rather than in sequence. According to Crusoe, that meant working on energy systems design, data center engineering, site development and talks with hyperscale customers all at once.

The hybrid power design Crusoe drew up for the campus combines fuel cells, grid electricity and natural gas turbines. It also sets out a longer-term route to carbon capture through Tallgrass’s regional CO2 sequestration hub, and Crusoe presented it as an example of its integrated approach to digital infrastructure.

Google’s own plan uses a similar mix. It has contracted AEP for a 702 MW fuel cell development with carbon capture and storage (CCS), using fuel cells made by Bloom Energy, with most of the carbon emissions to be stored at Tallgrass’s Eastern Wyoming Sequestration Hub. Google said it will also draw power from gas generators run by Tallgrass Energy and Black Hills Energy, and that the data center will be air-cooled.

When Crusoe and Tallgrass unveiled the project in July 2025, they described a 1.8 GW campus designed to scale up to 10 GW, drawing on natural gas and future renewable energy in the region. Tallgrass, which said it had been based in Wyoming for more than a decade, was to bring its natural gas, water and CO2 sequestration assets.

The two companies still work together in Texas. In September, Crusoe said it is the developer of Google’s data center campus under construction in Armstrong County, outside Amarillo, where ground was broken in June 2025 and more than 5,500 skilled laborers work on site each day. That campus connects directly to the Goodnight 1 and Goodnight 2 wind farms, each rated at 265.5 MW.

Investors have backed Crusoe’s expansion. Abu Dhabi’s Mubadala Capital joined a funding round that reportedly valued Crusoe at roughly $30 billion and raised more than $3 billion, as trading firm Jane Street signed an AI cloud agreement worth approximately $13 billion.

Crusoe’s other contracted campuses include its flagship 1.2 GW site in Abilene, Texas, built for Oracle, and a second 900 MW Abilene campus for Microsoft. In Wyoming, Google expects its project to generate hundreds of millions of dollars in local property taxes for Laramie County and School District 1.