Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai arrive to speak at the Google Midlothian Data Center on Nov. 14, 2025 in Midlothian, Texas.
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Alphabet’s Googlesaid on Friday it would invest $40 billion in three new data centers inTexasthrough 2027, as the company accelerates efforts to expand capacity for supporting its artificial intelligence ambitions.
Technology giants, including Alphabet, Microsoftand Meta Platformshave been pouring unprecedented sums into infrastructure to secure computing power and energy capacity needed to sustain the AI boom.
One of the data centers will be in Armstrong County, in theTexaspanhandle, and the other two in Haskell County, a stretch of WestTexasnear Abilene, Google said in a statement.
