Construction is advancing on a major Google AI data center campus in Armstrong County, Texas, with Crusoe serving as developer and connecting the project to adjacent wind generation.
Crusoe announced its role on September 28, 2026, saying the campus is under construction outside Amarillo and broke ground in June 2025. The development is being built directly alongside Serena’s Goodnight wind projects as Crusoe targets an energy-first model for AI infrastructure.
The project is taking shape as a multi-building data center development at 10001 Lima Road in Claude. Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation filings identify several new data center buildings at the site, including facilities ranging from about 485,000 square feet to 805,000 square feet.
One filing for Llano Building 2 identifies a 484,954-square-foot, single-story data center with four data halls. The filing lists an estimated construction cost of $500 million for that scope of work. Another filing for Llano Building 3 identifies an approximately 805,380-square-foot single-story data center with multiple data halls and support space, also at an estimated $500 million.
Additional filings identify Llano Buildings 4, 5 and 6, each at roughly 805,000 square feet. Building 4 carries an estimated $500 million construction cost and a March 2027 completion date, while Building 6 has an estimated July 2027 completion date.
Taken together, the filings show a large multi-building campus rather than a single data center building. The state records also show GN DC1 LLC as the owner of record for the Llano projects. HKS is listed as the design firm on several of the larger buildings.
Data center development drives new wind generation
The campus has a direct connection to Serena’s 265.5-MW Goodnight 1 wind farm, which is operational.
It will also connect to Goodnight 2, another 265.5-MW wind project that is under construction. Crusoe said its data center development helped catalyze Goodnight 2. The two wind farms represent 531 MW of combined generation capacity.
The arrangement allows power generated by the wind projects to serve the data center while surplus generation can flow back to the grid when campus demand is lower.
That creates a direct relationship between the data center buildout and additional renewable generation in the Texas Panhandle.
The power strategy also addresses one of the largest infrastructure requirements for AI computing: securing enough electricity close to the data center.
Closed-loop cooling limits water use
Crusoe is also designing the campus around a closed-loop cooling system.
The facility will use closed-loop, non-evaporative liquid cooling, which the company says will significantly limit the site’s water footprint. Water use will primarily cover domestic requirements such as kitchens.
The cooling approach is particularly relevant as AI data centers deploy higher-density computing equipment that requires more advanced thermal management.
Crusoe has not disclosed the campus’ total IT capacity in its September 28 announcement. The company instead describes the facility as being engineered to provide capacity for advanced AI.
Construction continues across multiple buildings
The state filings show construction activity extending across multiple phases of the Llano development.
Building 1 was registered with an August 2025 construction start and an estimated $292 million cost for approximately 484,954 square feet. Building 2 carries the same approximate size and a $292 million estimated cost in its base construction filing.
Later filings identify larger buildings at approximately 805,380 square feet each. Buildings 3 and 4 each carry estimated construction costs of $500 million in their respective filings.
Texas construction filings show at least $2.08 billion in estimated construction costs across five data center buildings at the campus, while the overall project investment has not been publicly disclosed by Crusoe or Google.
Crusoe said more than 5,500 skilled laborers are on site daily as construction proceeds.
The company is also developing two other West Texas campuses in Abilene, expanding its presence in a region that is attracting large AI computing and power projects.
Google’s Energy Impact Fund is separately supporting energy-efficiency upgrades for public buildings and homes in Armstrong County.
A different power model is taking shape nearby
The Armstrong County project is part of a broader wave of AI infrastructure development across the Texas Panhandle.
In neighboring Carson County, Fermi is developing Project Matador, a private-power and AI campus that uses a different approach to supplying electricity. Fermi plans to combine natural gas generation with solar, nuclear power, grid power and battery storage as the campus expands.
While Crusoe’s Armstrong County campus is tied directly to adjacent wind generation, Project Matador is being built around a private power system designed to supply large AI loads behind the meter.
Factsheet: Google AI data center campus / Project Llano
- Location: 10001 Lima Road, Claude, Armstrong County, Texas
- Developer: Crusoe
- Customer: Google
- Owner of record: GN DC1 LLC
- Construction status: Under construction
- Groundbreaking: June 2025
- Cooling: Closed-loop, non-evaporative liquid cooling
- Goodnight 1: 265.5 MW, operational
- Goodnight 2: 265.5 MW, under construction
- Combined adjacent wind capacity: 531 MW
- Data center buildings: Multiple buildings identified in TDLR filings
- Building sizes: Approximately 485,000 to 805,000 square feet
- Workers: More than 5,500 skilled laborers on site daily, according to Crusoe
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