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Google, three new data centres in Texas: $40 billion investment

Southern US state increasingly home to big tech data centres

14 November 2025

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2' min read

Translated by AI

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Google plans to invest $40 billion in three new data centres in Texas, strengthening its presence while competitors such as OpenAI and Anthropic PBC plan their own multi-billion dollar bets in the state.

The investment will be made in 2027, Google parent company Alphabet said in a statement on Friday. One data centre will be in Armstrong County, in the northern part of Texas, and two in Haskell County, an area of West Texas near Abilene. One of the Haskell facilities will be co-located with a new solar and battery energy storage facility designed to reduce the impact on the power grid.

"This investment will create thousands of jobs, provide vocational training for university students and apprentice electricians, and accelerate energy affordability initiatives across Texas," said Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai at an event near Dallas, where the company already owns two data centres.

Texas land of data centres

Texas is home to some of the largest data centre initiatives under development, driven by a surge in demand for data processing stimulated by the artificial intelligence boom. Earlier this week, Anthropic announced it will invest $50 billion in data centres in the US, including New York and Texas, which boasts an abundance of land and relatively cheap energy.

The first data centre under construction by the Stargate project, supported by OpenAI, creator of ChatGPT, Oracle and Softbank Group, is located in Abilene, Texas, and executives have announced that more will open in the state.

Meta Platforms is also building a new one gigawatt data centre in Texas. For reference, one gigawatt of electricity can power 750,000 homes. Microsoft Corp. signed a nearly $10 billion deal earlier this month for five years of computing capacity in Texas.

Fermi, the real estate investment trust co-founded by former Texas governor Rick Perry, who also served as energy secretary during President Donald Trump's first term, plans to build four nuclear reactors in the state for a private data centre campus.

For Google 90 billion spent in 2025

Multibillion-dollar spending promises are the order of the day for Google, which is expected to spend over $90 billion in capital expenditures this year alone, a significant increase over previous estimates, with the bulk going to servers, custom chips, and new data centres to support its artificial intelligence and cloud activities.

In the last two months alone, the company announced a $15 billion plan to build an artificial intelligence infrastructure hub in southern India; pledged to invest $6.4 billion in data processing resources and operations in Germany; and pledged to spend over $6.5 billion in the UK to help stimulate greater development of artificial intelligence.

This spending spree underlines Alphabet's ambition to expand globally and go beyond its traditional search-based advertising business.

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