{"id":50007,"date":"2025-11-14T22:19:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T22:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/50007\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T22:19:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T22:19:08","slug":"google-to-invest-40-billion-in-texas-through-2027","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/50007\/","title":{"rendered":"Google to invest $40 billion in Texas through 2027"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai arrive to speak at the Google Midlothian Data Center on Nov. 14, 2025 in Midlothian, Texas.<\/p>\n<p>Ron Jenkins | Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Alphabet&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/GOOGL\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Google<\/a>\u00a0said on Friday it would invest $40 billion in three new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2025\/11\/14\/data-centers-are-concentrated-in-these-states-heres-whats-happening-to-electricity-prices-.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">data centers in\u00a0Texas<\/a>\u00a0through 2027, as the company accelerates efforts to expand capacity for supporting its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/ai-artificial-intelligence\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">artificial intelligence<\/a> ambitions.<\/p>\n<p>Technology giants, including Alphabet, Microsoft\u00a0and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/META\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Meta Platforms<\/a>\u00a0have been pouring unprecedented sums into infrastructure to secure computing power and energy capacity needed to sustain the AI boom.<\/p>\n<p>One of the data centers will be in Armstrong County, in the\u00a0Texas\u00a0panhandle, and the other two in Haskell County, a stretch of West\u00a0Texas\u00a0near Abilene, Google said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Read also: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2025\/11\/14\/ai-gpu-depreciation-coreweave-nvidia-michael-burry.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The question everyone in AI is asking: How long before a GPU depreciates?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai arrive to speak at the Google Midlothian&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":50008,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28462,28461,9853,9851,917,918,451,6910,287,3621,27,29,28,10543],"class_list":["post-50007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-alphabet-class-a","tag-breaking-news-economy","tag-breaking-news-politics","tag-breaking-news-technology","tag-business-news","tag-economy","tag-energy","tag-meta-platforms-inc","tag-politics","tag-technology","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-u-s-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50007\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}