Google · Claude, Texas

Goodnight

1.3GW projected

The power of 1.1 million US homes, once built.

Under construction. Projected to draw 1.3 GW by Oct 2027.

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B300, Rubin
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Google DeepMind (unconfirmed)
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Serena
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Power over time

facility power · 7 milestones
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  1. 19 May 2025 — Land clearing begins
  2. 16 Oct 2025 — Building 1 and 2 under construction.
  3. 23 Dec 2025 — Construction on Building 1 and 2 looks about halfway to completion. Foundations and utility trenches are visible for Building 3-4. Building 5-6 have an outline. The substation appears to be expanding.
  4. 16 Apr 2026 — Progress is made on all buildings, Building 1 and 2 specically have begun to install cooling structures. The substation expansion seems to be nearing completion.
  5. 15 Mar 2027 · projected 133 MW Building 1 operational. This regulatory document lists the completion date for Building 1 as 2026-09-12, the current status suggests this estimate will not be met. Based on the timeline seen at the Abilene,Texas site for the same building styles and the most recent imaged status, we estimate operability to occur 6 months after the state seen in Sept 2026.
  6. 15 May 2027 · projected 265 MW Building 2 operational. The completion date for Building 2 Tenant Improvement is 2026-11-07, about 2 months later than Building 1. We therefore add 2 months to the Building 1 operational date.
  7. 1 Oct 2027 · projected 1.3 GW 6 buildings are operational. This is based on: 1. A regulatory filing for Building 6 with a completion date of 2027-07-30. Normally there is a follow-up filing for "tenant improvement" which involves building the interior, with a completion date 1-3 months after the initial filing. 2. A project deadline of EOY 2027 in the original tax abatement agreement 3. The similar 8-building project in Abilene taking an estimated 2 years and 2 months.

Epoch’s release of 2 Sep 2026 planned 3 steps here; 133 MW for Dec 2026 is 90 days later, projected; 265 MW for Feb 2027 is 89 days later, projected. Planned against reached

Gas and wind lead the two grids that serve Armstrong County

net generation by fuel · Oct 2025 to Sep 2026

Electric Reliability Council of Texas, Inc. ERCO · balancing authority

  1. Gas 40%
  2. Coal 12%
  3. Nuclear 8%
  4. Wind 24%
  5. Solar 16%
  6. Hydro <1%
  7. Other <1%

Southwest Power Pool SWPP · balancing authority

  1. Gas 27%
  2. Coal 26%
  3. Nuclear 5%
  4. Wind 37%
  5. Solar 2%
  6. Hydro 3%
  7. Other <1%

The utilities that serve Armstrong County, TX, report to 2 grids; the data does not show which one feeds the site. Each grid is a balancing authority. Generation only; imports are excluded. Every grid behind an AI site.

Owners plan 266 MW of new power in Armstrong County, all wind

power plants in Armstrong County · EIA-860M, September 2026
  1. Goodnight Wind II Wind · 266 MW · May 2027 · being built · FGE Goodnight II, LLC

In service in Armstrong County today: 266 MW. Since January 2023: 266 MW added, 0 MW retired. A plant in the same county does not mean it feeds the site. Power plants near every AI site.

Sources

selected by Epoch AI
  1. Amended tax abatement agreement, with updated blueprints on p.46
  2. Original tax abatement agreement, with original blueprints and specs on the last page
  3. TABS database, with "Llano" data centers in the city of Claude
  4. Press release reports Google investing in a new data center in Armstrong County
  5. Clean Air Act Initial Prevention of Significant Deterioration permit application.

Data: Epoch AI, “AI data centers”, CC BY 4.0, retrieved 22 Oct 2026. Facility power adds cooling and other overhead to the IT power the servers draw. Placed at the centre of Claude. Grid: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Hourly Electric Grid Monitor (Form EIA-930), public domain, retrieved 16 Oct 2026; utilities by county from Form EIA-861 and the U.S. Census Bureau Geocoder, public domain. Power plants: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Form EIA-860M, public domain, inventory as of September 2026. All sources.