Google’s $40 billion Texas data centers to create thousands of jobs
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Alphabet Google is investing $40 billion to build new data centers in two Texas counties.
The announcement, made on Friday, said that one of the new data centers will be in Armstrong County, in the Texas Panhandle, and the other two in Haskell County, a stretch of West Texas near Abilene.
“This investment will create thousands of jobs, provide skills training for college students and electrical apprentices, and accelerate energy affordability initiatives across Texas,” Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai said in a statement obtained by Reuters.
Google has been operating in the Lone Star State for 15 years, and the investment, which will be implemented through 2027, underscores the growing competition between AI and cloud providers to build infrastructure capable of supporting advanced AI models.
North Carolina residents are fighting back against a massive technology project that could potentially come to their city
Texas Governor Greg Abbott, Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai lead a panel at Google’s Midlothian data center on November 14, 2025, in Midlothian, Texas. (Ron Jenkins/Getty Images)
“Google’s $40 billion investment in Texas is the largest investment by Google in Texas of any state in the country and supports energy efficiency and workforce development in our state,” Texas Governor Greg Abbott said in a statement.
People living in some states have been resistant to data centers.
A mysterious company’s $1.6 billion data center proposed for farmland in Wisconsin is angering residents
At a community celebration in Midlothian, Texas, Congressman Jake Elzey, US Deputy Secretary of Energy James Danley, Governor Greg Abbott, Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai, and Google Senior Director Amanda Peterson Corio announced a new project. (Google)
Last September, residents in Tarboro, North Carolina, urged their city council to reject a proposal for a 50-acre, 300-megawatt Energy Storage Solutions LLC site because of a belief that it would consume massive amounts of water and electricity, deplete natural resources and raise utility rates.
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People living in Menomonie, Wisconsin, I felt similarly about water usage and higher electricity bills that would result from a mysterious company’s proposed $1.6 billion data center.
Attendees during a media event at the Google Midlothian data center in Midlothian, Texas, US, on Friday, November 14, 2025. (Jonathan Johnson/Bloomberg/Getty Images)
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OpenAI, Microsoft, Meta Platforms, and Amazon are among the companies spending billions of dollars on new AI-focused data centers.
Reuters contributed to this report.
2025-11-16 13:15:00
