Alphabet Inc.’s Google plans to invest $40 billion in three new Texas data centers, part of an effort to add artificial intelligence computing power in a state that’s also drawn multibillion investments from competitors such as OpenAI and Anthropic PBC.
The investment will be made through 2027, Google said in a statement Friday. One data center will be in Armstrong County, in the Texas panhandle, and two in Haskell County, a stretch of West Texas near Abilene. One of the Haskell facilities will be co-located with a new solar and battery energy storage plant designed to ease the impact on the power grid.
“This investment will create thousands of jobs, provide skills training to college students and electrical apprentices, and accelerate energy affordability initiatives throughout Texas,” Alphabet Chief Executive Officer Sundar Pichai said at an event near Dallas, where the company already has two data center locations…