Google will invest $17 billion to develop the campus after raising concerns about Crusoe’s costs and timeline.

Crusoe confirmed Friday that it sold an unfinished data center project in southeastern Wyoming to Google. Google, which Crusoe had courted as a customer for the site, takes over development after raising concerns about cost and construction timeline under Crusoe’s management. Google has not disclosed the purchase price.

Crusoe announced the project last year with Tallgrass, a Blackstone-backed infrastructure company, and planned to scale the campus to 10 gigawatts of capacity. Google said it will invest $17 billion to develop the campus. Crusoe sold the site after the Wyoming setback and then raised a $3.9 billion round in September.

The sale shows how hard independent developers find it to deliver massive data center projects on time and on budget while securing equipment and power. Local opposition adds further friction. Crusoe’s model depends on leasing space to customers that bring their own GPUs, renting its own GPUs, and selling inference compute.

Google has not walked away from Crusoe. Crusoe is developing another data center for Google near Amarillo, Texas, and is building a 900-megawatt campus next door to its Abilene site for Microsoft that should come online in mid-2027. Meta and Jane Street are also customers.

What matters

• Google takes over construction of the southeastern Wyoming campus Crusoe had planned to scale to 10 gigawatts.
• Independent developers face equipment shortages, power constraints, and local opposition that stall builds.
• Crusoe still builds a Google data center near Amarillo, and its Abilene campus serves OpenAI and Oracle.

Why it matters

Crusoe still builds a Google data center near Amarillo, and its Abilene campus serves OpenAI and Oracle.

This GenAI News article was prepared in original wording using reporting and materials published by TechCrunch AI. Source reference: https://techcrunch.com/2026/11/06/crusoe-sells-troubled-wyoming-data-center-project-to-google/.

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