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Ratings for the physical buildout of AI
Google Goodnight Campus (Armstrong County, TX)

Google Goodnight Campus (Armstrong County, TX)

Construction
Confirmed

Jurisdiction: US — Texas (ERCOT)

~1,300 acres near Claude, Armstrong County, TX Panhandle (named for the nearby town of Goodnight). Off-grid campus: 933MW gas turbines + 265.5MW Goodnight Wind. Developed by Crusoe, acquired by Google (part of the $40B Texas program). Coords approximate (Lima Rd / Claude vicinity — no source publishes exact site lat/lng).

Capacity
GPUs (est.)
Capex
Announced
Target operational

Delivery health score

59.6 /100
59.6/100

Methodology prs-v0.1 · computed · trigger: scheduled

Schedule

60 /100
60/100

Regulatory

76 /100
76/100

Infrastructure

70 /100
70/100

Capital

40 /100
40/100

Why this score — factor breakdown

Each factor below contributed to the current score. Contributions are rubric weights from methodology prs-v0.1; every factor cites the record it is derived from.

Dimension
Factor
Contribution
Cites
Narrative
Capital baseline 40 Google Goodnight Campus (Armstrong County, TX) No committed capital evidenced on any entity role — announcement-only anchor region (§B.2.4).
Infrastructure baseline 70 Google Goodnight Campus (Armstrong County, TX) No-adverse-evidence infrastructure baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines).
Regulatory baseline 70 Google Goodnight Campus (Armstrong County, TX) No-adverse-evidence regulatory baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines).
Regulatory permit granted +6 Gas Permit Filed Permitting milestone "Gas Permit Filed" achieved on 2026-01-01.
Schedule baseline 80 Google Goodnight Campus (Armstrong County, TX) No-adverse-evidence schedule baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines).
Schedule milestone achieved +5 Gas Permit Filed Milestone "Gas Permit Filed" achieved on/ahead of its first announced date (2026-01-01).
Schedule staleness decay -25 Google Goodnight Campus (Armstrong County, TX) Newest schedule evidence is 2026-01-01 (freshness window 6 months) — score drifts one rubric level toward the stage-default prior of 50 (§B.4: silence is information).

Milestones

  1. Gas Permit Filed

    Achieved

    Gas permit filed · Actual:

Constraint observations

No active constraint observations recorded against this project.

Entities & roles

Entity
Role
Ownership
Committed capital
Google
Owner
Crusoe Energy
Developer
Serena Energy
Power Supplier

Sources & citations

Every substantive field on this record is backed by a canonical claim from a cited source document, graded on the E1 (strongest) – E5 (weakest) evidence ladder.

  1. Yale Environment 360 (digesting The Guardian) · Apr 7, 2026 · backs: actual date

    https://e360.yale.edu/digest/google-natural-gas-data-center

  2. Latitude Media · Apr 3, 2026 · backs: status

    https://www.latitudemedia.com/news/how-a-crusoe-google-campus-became-texas-co-location-test-case/

Signals

Recent ingested source documents linked to this project via extracted claims or triage mentions, newest first.

  1. · Latitude Media · relevance 0.85

  2. · New Project Media · relevance 0.85

  3. · Google · relevance 0.70