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Google Haskell County Data Centers

Google Haskell County Data Centers

Announced
Probable

Jurisdiction: US — Texas (ERCOT)

Two data centers planned in Haskell County, TX (near Abilene), part of Google's $40B Texas investment; coordinates approximate to county centroid

Capacity
GPUs (est.)
Capex
Announced
Target operational

Delivery health score

72 /100
72/100

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

Schedule

90 /100
90/100

Regulatory

70 /100
70/100

Infrastructure

70 /100
70/100

Capital

70 /100
70/100

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 Haskell County Data Centers Capital base before committed-capital evidence (announcement-only anchor region, §B.2.4).
Capital capital commitment +30 Google (investor) investor role committed $40,000,000,000 (capex undisclosed — coverage unverifiable).
Infrastructure baseline 70 Google Haskell County Data Centers No-adverse-evidence infrastructure baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines).
Regulatory baseline 70 Google Haskell County Data Centers No-adverse-evidence regulatory baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines).
Schedule baseline 80 Google Haskell County Data Centers No-adverse-evidence schedule baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines).
Schedule milestone achieved +5 Announcement Milestone "Announcement" achieved on/ahead of its first announced date (2025-11-14).
Schedule milestone achieved +5 Groundbreaking Milestone "Groundbreaking" achieved on/ahead of its first announced date (2025-11-30).

Milestones

  1. Announcement

    Achieved

    Announcement · Actual:

  2. Groundbreaking

    Achieved

    Groundbreaking · Actual:

  3. Energization

    Expected
    1 revision

    Energization · Expected:

Constraint observations

No active constraint observations recorded against this project.

Entities & roles

Entity
Role
Ownership
Committed capital
Google
Developer
Google
Investor
100% $40.0B
Google
Operator
Google
Owner
Intersect Power
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. Community Impact · Nov 14, 2025 · backs: actual date

    https://communityimpact.com/dallas-fort-worth/mckinney/business/2025/11/14/google-commits-40b-to-3-new-data-centers-infrastructure-in-texas-through-2027/

  2. DCD · backs: actual date, expected date

    https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/make-more-data-center-centric0916claude-responded-google-breaks-ground-on-colocated-data-center-and-1gw-energy-project-in-texasgoogle-breaks-ground-on-colocated-data-center-and-1gw-energy-project-in-texas/

  3. Texas Tribune · Nov 14, 2025 · backs: status

    https://www.texastribune.org/2025/11/14/texas-google-data-centers-ai/

Signals

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

  1. · Google blog · relevance 0.70

  2. · Texas Tribune · relevance 0.85

  3. · Community Impact · relevance 0.90

  4. · Intersect · relevance 0.70