{"id":50060,"date":"2025-11-14T22:56:06","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T22:56:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/50060\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T22:56:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T22:56:06","slug":"google-to-invest-40-billion-in-new-data-centers-in-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/50060\/","title":{"rendered":"Google to Invest $40 Billion in New Data Centers in Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Alphabet Inc.\u2019s 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\u2019s also drawn multibillion investments from competitors such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/C:US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">OpenAI<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/1892140D:US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">Anthropic PBC<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">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. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alphabet Inc.\u2019s Google plans to invest $40 billion in three new Texas data centers, part of an effort&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":50061,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28492,28493,3436,3363,973,2184,188,28495,28494,3621,27,29,28],"class_list":["post-50060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-alphabet-inc-cl-a","tag-anthropic-pbc","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-energy-storage","tag-infrastructure","tag-jobs","tag-new-york","tag-softbank-group-corp","tag-sundar-pichai","tag-technology","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50060","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=50060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50060\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}