Google acquires Crusoe's Wyoming data center site in AI capacity push

Google has acquired Crusoe's data center site in southeast Wyoming, according to an announcement the company published on November 6, 2026. The deal closes out Crusoe's role in the earliest phase of the project and hands Google a location that has already cleared the key groundwork: site selection, government approvals and a power strategy.

What changed hands

According to Crusoe, the transaction completes its engagement in pre-development work on the Wyoming project. That work spanned identifying and securing the site, winning the required governmental approvals, and assembling the power plan — the multi-year preparation that determines whether a large data center campus can actually be built and energized. Crusoe's announcement did not include financial terms.

Chase Lochmiller, Crusoe's co-founder and CEO, said the company's pre-construction efforts — which he described as "origination, entitlement, and de-risking" — positioned the Wyoming project to move into construction and eventually operation. He added that Crusoe has more than 6 GW under contract and over 40 GW in its development pipeline, and framed the company's business as "activating gigawatts for intelligence."

The power plan behind the site

The Wyoming campus began as a joint effort between Crusoe and Tallgrass Energy, which developed power and data center infrastructure together rather than one after the other. According to Crusoe, that parallel process required coordinating energy systems design, data center engineering, site development and engagement with hyperscalers simultaneously.

The outcome is what Crusoe calls a hybrid power strategy: a combination of fuel cells, grid power and natural gas turbines, with a long-term roadmap for carbon capture through Tallgrass's regional CO2 sequestration hub.

A second Google project

The Wyoming sale is not the only connection between the two companies. Crusoe says it is also the developer of a Google data center campus currently under construction in Armstrong County, outside Amarillo, Texas.

Why it matters

The deal is a window into how the AI infrastructure race now operates. For a hyperscaler like Google, the slowest part of adding compute capacity is rarely the hardware itself — it is finding land, securing energy and obtaining permits. By purchasing a site where Crusoe has already done that de-risking, Google compresses the timeline for bringing new AI compute online at a moment when capacity, not demand, is the industry-wide constraint.

For Crusoe, the sale validates a model in which pre-development work is itself a product, one that can be sold to deep-pocketed buyers once a project is shovel-ready. It also frees the company to pursue the far larger pipeline it says it has assembled. And the site's hybrid energy design — blending grid power, natural gas turbines and fuel cells, with carbon capture on the roadmap — points at how future AI campuses may be powered in regions where the electricity grid alone cannot deliver gigawatt-scale loads.