Google Takes Over Crusoe's Wyoming Site, a 2.7 GW Campus Due in 2031 That Runs on Three Power Sources

The figure that matters in Crusoe's Nov. 6 announcement is the one it leaves out. The company says Google has acquired its data center site in southeast Wyoming, but gives no price, no megawatts and no construction date. The numbers come from earlier local reporting, and they describe a campus of 2.7 gigawatts.

What Crusoe said on Nov. 6

In a release datelined Denver, Crusoe said the sale "marks the completion of Crusoe's engagement in pre-development work" on the project, covering site selection, governmental approvals and power strategy. Chase Lochmiller, Crusoe's co-founder and chief executive, said those efforts "have set up the Wyoming project for construction and eventual operation."

Crusoe did not say whether it will take part in construction or operation. It did not give a price. It says it has more than 6 GW contracted and over 40 GW in its pipeline, and that it is the developer of Google's campus under construction in Armstrong County, outside Amarillo, Texas.

The campus, from the July reporting

Cowboy State Daily reported in July that Google was the owner of what had been called Project Jade, now Project Tembo. The campus is 2.7 GW, scalable to 10 GW, on 716 acres in the Switchgrass Industrial Park, about 8 miles south of Cheyenne. The owner is Google's subsidiary Jupiter Star Holdings, LLC, which replaced Crusoe as builder. Planned completion is 2031.

The design has four data center halls, an office hub, logistics and network buildings and new access roads. Wastewater is treated on site in evaporative lagoons, because connecting to Cheyenne's municipal system was not judged cost-effective.

The two accounts fit together, but they are not the same document. Crusoe's release describes a finished handover; the July story describes a project already under Google's name. Neither source says why Crusoe's role ended, and neither company's statement addresses it.

Three power sources, one substation

Power is the unusual part. Crusoe's release says it and Tallgrass Energy developed a hybrid strategy that combines fuel cells, grid power and natural gas turbines, with a long-term roadmap for carbon capture through Tallgrass's regional CO2 sequestration hub. Cowboy State Daily says Tallgrass will combine energy from Black Hills Energy, fuel cells and its power plant to feed a substation serving the campus, and that Black Hills Energy confirmed it is a partner.

Item	Figure	Source
Campus power	2.7 GW, scalable to 10 GW	Cowboy State Daily
Site	716 acres, 8 miles south of Cheyenne	Cowboy State Daily
Completion	2031	Cowboy State Daily
Crusoe pipeline	6 GW contracted, 40 GW pipeline	Crusoe

The denominator is the point. Announced capacity is not energised capacity: a 2.7 GW campus is a design ceiling, and the first halls will draw a fraction of it years before 2031. The carbon-capture element is described only as a long-term roadmap, not as built.

Why the buyer matters for chips and demand

Google's compute appetite is visible in its products. Its Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash video model now prices at $0.07 a second at 720p, which is a bet that cheap generation will pull in more demand. Capacity at the Wyoming scale is what that bet needs. On the other side of the stack, NVIDIA's NVKE preview shows how much software is being built to manage GPU fleets of that size.

Crusoe's own trade is origination: find the land, win the permits, lock in power, then hand the site to a hyperscaler. The Wyoming sale shows the model working, since the company's value in this deal is the entitlement and power plan rather than any building.

What would change this read

This read assumes Google builds out the campus on the 2031 schedule. Two things would break it: a permit or power-supply delay, or a disclosed price that shows how much of the value was the power plan. A permit hearing was set for 3:30 p.m. on Aug. 13 in the Laramie County Commission chambers, according to Cowboy State Daily; neither source here reports its outcome. Crusoe has not said what it does next in Wyoming.