Google Buys a Site It Once Wanted to Rent

Crusoe exits Wyoming after failing to land the very customer it had courted, and the roles reverse.

Crusoe confirmed on 6 November 2026 that it has sold an unfinished data centre project in southeastern Wyoming to Google. Google said it will invest $17 billion to develop the campus, a figure that represents its own build-out spending rather than the purchase price, which was not disclosed. The site had been planned at up to 10 gigawatts, against Crusoe’s roughly 1 gigawatt of capacity currently running. The reversal is the story: an eight-year-old developer valued at $30.9 billion had pursued Google as an anchor tenant, failed to close it, and now sells the land to the customer instead — evidence that origination and gigawatt-scale delivery are becoming separate businesses.