Google's Jackson County data center occupies roughly 360 acres of the former Widows Creek coal-fired power plant, which was retired in 2015. Google selected the site in 2015, broke ground in April 2018 on a $600 million build, and brought the campus online in 2019. As of 2022 the campus comprised two data center buildings of roughly 135,000 sqft each and employed several hundred people.
In June 2026, Google announced a $1.5 billion expansion to be built out across 2026 and 2027. The project is expected to employ more than 1,000 construction workers and pushes Google's cumulative investment in the site past $2 billion, with Google funding 100% of its own power and infrastructure costs.
In 2017, Google announced a commitment to power the company and its data centers entirely on renewable energy. In 2018, Google reached the 100% of their goal.
October 29, 2026 Google
Google is considering a 1,200MW data center campus on about 1,000 acres in Goochland County, Virginia, the county confirmed on Oct. 28. The county's announcement named Google as the company behind a project that appeared in Virginia regulatory filings in July without an identified owner. Google...
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October 28, 2026 Oracle
Oracle will sell Google's Tensor Processing Units through Oracle Cloud Infrastructure under a deal the companies announced on Oct. 27. The agreement makes OCI the first hyperscale cloud platform outside Google to offer the chips, Google Cloud said. TPU capacity on OCI is scheduled to become...
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October 27, 2026 Google
Hermantown has moved its City Council vote on Google's proposed data center to Friday after protests shut down two meetings. The city scheduled the session for 6:30 p.m. on Oct. 30 with the same six resolutions from the canceled Oct. 27 agenda, according to a city press release. The resolutions...
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October 26, 2026 Google
Finland's Licensing and Supervision Authority has told Google subsidiary Tuike Finland to keep preparatory work at its Muhos and Kajaani data center sites suspended. The agency set an Oct. 23 deadline for felling, excavation, blasting and road building to stop at both sites, according to its...
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October 23, 2026 Google
Google will buy 1,070 MW of additional flexible capacity from Voltus in the PJM grid region. The companies announced the expansion of their Bring Your Own Capacity agreement on Oct. 22, adding 1,070 MW to the 100 MW they committed in June. Voltus aggregates flexible capacity from homes and...
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