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Google data center in Gray County and Roberts County, Texas

Updated Nov 3, 2026Sources: Server Country; Kapwork Grow tracker

Announced Jun 4, 2026, in Gray County and Roberts County. No permit on record yet.

No permit on record yet. First seen Aug 15, 2026.

Where

Gray County and Roberts County, Gray County and Roberts County, Texas.

Exact site not public. Shown at township level.

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Gray County and Roberts CountyGray County and Roberts County
Reported capacity
1,260MW
Planned, as Server Country (Sep 24, 2026) reports it. 2,283,000 square feet, per Kapwork Grow tracker. May be planned, not energised, capacity.
Work it brings
Electrical, mechanical, low-voltage, site, fiber
The trades a data center build hires, from the site work to the last mile of fiber.
Who bills here
Google
The operator, per Server Country. No public record names its general contractor yet. The carriers show here when a record names them.

  • Builds in Texas

    230

    Proposed, approved, under construction or expanding, this one included. Kapwork Grow tracker, published Nov 3, 2026.

  • U.S. data center construction

    $84.95B a year

    August 2026, seasonally adjusted annual rate, preliminary. Up 73.2% from $49.05B in August 2025; 63.3% of private office construction. U.S. Census Bureau, C30, released Oct 1, 2026.

What this means for you

Same customers, bigger invoices.

The electrical, mechanical and fiber work on this campus bills Google, its GC and the carriers you already know. Certify the invoices behind it, and funders compete to fund them.

An announced or permitted build is not a contract, an open bid or a purchase order.

Who your invoice goes to

  • GoogleOperator
  • General contractorNot named yet
  • CarriersNot named yet
  • UtilityNot named yet

Key facts

Stage
Under constructionServer Country · Sep 24, 2026
Reported capacity
1260 MWServer Country · Sep 24, 2026
Reported building area
2,283,000 sq ftKapwork Grow tracker · Nov 2, 2026
Reported investment
$3BKapwork Grow tracker · Nov 2, 2026
Reported jobs
40Kapwork Grow tracker · Nov 2, 2026
Announced
Jun 4, 2026Server Country · Sep 24, 2026
Construction start reported
Dec 19, 2025Server Country · Sep 24, 2026
Expected completion
Apr 18, 2028Server Country · Sep 24, 2026
Location
Gray County and Roberts County, TexasServer Country · Sep 24, 2026
AI workload
AI or machine-learning workload reportedKapwork Grow tracker · Nov 2, 2026
Facility type
AI data centerKapwork Grow tracker · Nov 2, 2026
Incentives reported
Sales Tax Exemption; Property Tax AbatementKapwork Grow tracker · Nov 2, 2026

What the public record lacks: the general contractor's name and the utility.

Who's involved

Operator
GoogleServer Country · Sep 24, 2026
Tenants
Google LLCKapwork Grow tracker · Nov 2, 2026
General contractor
Not named in a public record yet
Carriers
Appear here as the records name them

How far along it is

  1. · Server Country

    Construction start reported

  2. · Server Country

    Reported as announced

  3. · Kapwork's date

    First seen in the Kapwork Grow tracker (its first snapshot)

  4. · Server Country

    Expected completion reported

Dates as reported. Not a bid calendar. A planned date is not evidence that work occurred. Dates marked Kapwork's date come from the tracker's own snapshots, not from the sources.

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Questions this page answers

Is Google Meitner Energy Center Data Center under construction?
No permit record shows it yet, so this page prints it as announced. Server Country (Sep 24, 2026) reports it as under construction.
Who is building Google Meitner Energy Center Data Center?
Google is the operator; the tenants reported are Google LLC. No public record names the general contractor yet. It shows here the day one does.
When is Google Meitner Energy Center Data Center expected to finish?
Server Country reports expected completion in Apr 18, 2028. That is a reported target, not a schedule.
Which carriers serve Google Meitner Energy Center Data Center?
No public record names them yet. They show here when a filing does.
How do contractors on Google Meitner Energy Center Data Center get paid sooner?
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Sources, updates and data

Server Country · Kapwork Grow tracker · U.S. Census C30

Where this comes from

What each source reports

  • Server Country: Under construction, 1,260 MW

Updates

  • Apr 18, 2028: Expected completion reported. Server Country
  • Aug 15, 2026: First seen in the Kapwork Grow tracker (its first snapshot). Kapwork's date
  • Jun 4, 2026: Reported as announced. Server Country
  • Dec 19, 2025: Construction start reported. Server Country

Limitations and interpretation

  • This record is the Kapwork Grow tracker's merged view of a facility, from the tracker snapshot built 2026-11-02. Facts tagged KW are the tracker's resolved values; the per-source rows it was merged from are listed under Sources and on the tracker record.
  • Sources on this record: Server Country, https://servercountry.org/data/ (CC BY 4.0). Every source is licensed for commercial use with attribution.
  • An announced or permitted build is not a contract, an open bid or a purchase order.
  • Capacity figures are as reported by the cited sources and may describe planned rather than energised capacity.

“Not reported” means missing information, not zero. Completed and withdrawn records can remain available as historical records.

Nearest build: Haversine great-circle distance on the tracker latitude and longitude, in statute miles, rounded to 0.1. First-seen dates: first_seen: the earliest committed snapshot of data/dcfo.sqlite holding any of the facility's source keys (source:source_id), narrowed to the nightly run day by the alert sender's facility_new events when they are available. status_first_seen: the start of the unbroken run of snapshots, ending at this one, in which a facility sharing a source key had the current status, narrowed by the latest status_changed event to that status. Dates are Kapwork's, not the sources'.

What we don't know yet

  • The general contractor's name and the utility.
  • The carriers that serve the campus.
  • How the operator and its GC pay their contractors: portal, terms, days to pay.

Spot an error? Tell us

Cite: Kapwork Grow, “Google Meitner Energy Center Data Center”, https://kapwork.com/grow/directory/datacenters/google-meitner-energy-center-data-center-tx-dc_09c142baa23f, materially updated Nov 3, 2026.

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