Key facts
- Crusoe confirmed on Friday, November 6, 2026, it sold the unfinished Wyoming data center project to Google.
- Google announced plans to invest $17 billion to develop the data center campus.
- Crusoe initially announced the project with Tallgrass, planning to scale it to 10 gigawatts of power capacity.
- Crusoe is developing another data center for Google near Amarillo, Texas.
- Crusoe raised a $3.9 billion funding round in September 2026.
Crusoe, a Denver-based data center developer valued at $30.9 billion, confirmed on Friday, November 6, 2026, that it sold an unfinished data center project in southeastern Wyoming to Google. Google, which Crusoe had tried and failed to land as a customer for the project, is taking over the development after reportedly raising concerns about its cost and construction timeline under Crusoe's management.
Google did not disclose how much it paid Crusoe for the unfinished project, but it announced plans to invest $17 billion to develop the data center campus. Crusoe initially announced the project last year with Blackstone-backed infrastructure company Tallgrass, planning to eventually scale it to 10 gigawatts of power capacity.
Despite taking over the Wyoming facility, Google has not walked away from working with Crusoe entirely. Crusoe is developing another data center for Google near Amarillo, Texas. The deal to sell the site to Google was first reported by Bloomberg in June, but the Wyoming setback did not stop Crusoe from raising a $3.9 billion round in September.
Crusoe makes money by leasing data center space to customers that bring their own GPUs, by renting out its own GPUs, and by selling compute power used to run AI models, known as inference. Its campus in Abilene, Texas, is being built in phases for Oracle and OpenAI, and the company is also constructing a separate 900-megawatt campus next door for Microsoft, with its first building expected to come online in mid-2027. Meta is also a customer, and Bloomberg reported that the trading firm Jane Street signed a $13 billion, five-year cloud deal with Crusoe.
Crusoe was founded by Chase Lochmiller, now its CEO, and Cully Cavness, who started it as a cryptocurrency-mining business powered by natural gas that would otherwise have been burned off. In September, alongside its $3.9 billion funding round, the company added three board members, including JB Straubel, the Redwood Materials founder and Tesla board member who invested in Crusoe in 2021.