Google plans $17B Wyoming data center as voters back limits elsewhere
Google's planned Laramie County campus pairs a 702 MW fuel-cell development with carbon capture, air cooling and a pledge to pay its full power costs.
By RuntimeWire Staff · Published
Primary source: Bloomberg Technology
Why it matters
The split between 2,500 peak construction jobs and roughly 250 permanent roles shows the scale of the campus's long-term employment. States that just voted for moratoriums hold much of the planned US build-out, and permitting paths are becoming a contested resource in AI infrastructure.
Steve Walter, Google's vice president of global infrastructure and energy, put a number on Google's Wyoming ambitions on November 5th: $17 billion for its first data center in the state, in Laramie County, built with Tallgrass Energy, Black Hills Energy, American Electric Power and Related Digital.…
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