Today, we are announcing our first data center in the state of Wyoming, in partnership with Tallgrass Energy, Black Hills Energy, American Electric Power (AEP), and Related Digital. Google is making a long-term, $17 billion investment in the Cowboy State, designed to deliver lasting benefits for Laramie County families and businesses.
- During construction, the project is expected to support more than 8,800 jobs statewide — including an onsite workforce of roughly 2,500 well-paying, skilled jobs at peak — and generate approximately $610 million in average annual labor income.
- Once operational, Google’s data center is expected to support over 3,700 jobs annually, including directly creating 250 roles in the Cowboy State.
Our commitment to responsible growth
We’re committed to partnering with communities to build data centers the right way. We will pay for 100% of the power we use, and when we build data centers, we’ll cover the infrastructure needs directly driven by our growth.
The project is contracted with AEP to feature a first-of-its-kind, commercial-scale, 702 MW fuel cell development with carbon capture and storage (CCS) — the largest planned development of its kind to date. Fuel cells efficiently convert fuel, in this case natural gas, into electricity through a safe electrochemical reaction. The fuel cells for this project will be made in America by Bloom Energy and will help minimize emissions and water use in the production of energy for our data infrastructure.
The CCS technology will enable the capture and permanent geologic storage of a large majority of its carbon emissions at Tallgrass’s nearby Eastern Wyoming Sequestration Hub. This project builds on our first CCS project in the U.S. announced last fall, and brings our total contracted CCS capacity to nearly 1 gigawatt.
We are also sourcing power from gas generators operated by Tallgrass Energy and Black Hills Energy, and conducting a technical front-end engineering and design (FEED) study to evaluate fitting Tallgrass’s combined cycle turbines with CCS technology. Together, these efforts represent a novel approach to powering data centers efficiently, accelerating the commercialization of CCS, and creating pathways to reduce the carbon emissions associated with natural gas generation.
Water is another essential shared resource, and we remain deeply committed to using it responsibly and investing in local water replenishment efforts. Consistent with our water stewardship commitments for local communities, our Wyoming data center will be air-cooled to minimize strain on local water resources.
