# Google takes over Crusoe's troubled Wyoming data center and plans to spend $17B on it

> Crusoe, valued at $30.9B, sold the unfinished 10-gigawatt project after Google reportedly worried about costs and delays. It still builds for OpenAI, Oracle and Microsoft.

- URL: https://devisdead.ai/news/google-takes-over-crusoe-s-troubled-wyoming-data-center-and-plans-to-spend-17b-o
- Published: 2026-11-08T23:22:49Z
- Author: DevIsDead Newsroom
- Section: Startups & Money
- Tags: crusoe, google, data centers, infrastructure
- Originally reported by TechCrunch (https://techcrunch.com/2026/11/06/crusoe-sells-troubled-wyoming-data-center-project-to-google/).

Building giant AI data centers is hard enough that even a $30.9 billion developer can lose one. Crusoe confirmed on Friday that Google is buying its half-built data center project in southeastern Wyoming, Marina Temkin reports for [TechCrunch](https://techcrunch.com/2026/11/06/crusoe-sells-troubled-wyoming-data-center-project-to-google/).

## What happened

Crusoe unveiled the project last year together with Tallgrass, an infrastructure firm backed by Blackstone, with plans to grow it to 10 gigawatts. It tried and failed to sign Google as the customer. Instead, Google is taking over development itself after reportedly raising concerns about cost and timeline under Crusoe. Google didn't say what it paid, but announced it will invest $17 billion to develop the campus.

Bloomberg first reported the sale in June. The setback didn't stop Crusoe from raising $3.9 billion in September, and it hasn't ended the relationship: Crusoe is still building a different data center for Google near Amarillo, Texas.

## Who Crusoe is

The Denver company, eight years old, started as a crypto miner powered by natural gas that would otherwise be flared off. Now it leases data center space, rents out its own GPUs and sells inference compute. In Abilene, Texas, it's building a campus in stages for OpenAI and Oracle, a 900-megawatt campus next door is going up for Microsoft with a first building due mid-2027, Meta is a customer, and trading firm Jane Street reportedly committed to a five-year, $13 billion cloud contract.

## Why it matters

The deal shows the pressure on independent developers: getting equipment and power is difficult, local opposition is growing, and a hyperscaler with deep pockets can simply take the project over if it doesn't like the pace. Expect more consolidation as the buildout meets the [backlash voters just delivered](/news/voters-passed-38-of-44-data-center-limits-big-tech-says-the-message-was-about-tr).

**[Scoreboard](/scoreboard) update:** AI +1. Google takes over a stalled 10-gigawatt AI campus and commits $17 billion to finish it.

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