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Goodnight Campus
Claude, Armstrong County, Texas · All 53 Google sites · Every Google case on our tracker
Goodnight Campus is a data center under construction in Claude, Texas (Armstrong County), operated by Google / Crusoe. The public record puts it at announced 2024, 933 MW planned, 350 acres. It has documented public support and no documented opposition.
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Facility record
Under construction
- Operator
- Google / Crusoe
- Facility type
- Data center, AI use confirmed
- Location
- Claude, Armstrong County, TX
- Coordinates
- 34.9730, -101.3670
- Power capacity
- 933 MW planned
- Land
- 350 acres
- Investment
- Not established from a public source
- Announced
- 2024
- Utility
- mixed
- Power source
- Mixed
- On site generation
- 933 MW
- Cooling
- Not established
- Water use
- Not established from a public source
- Jobs
- Not established from a public source
- Public subsidy
- Armstrong County Tax Abatement Agreement (Chapter 312, Texas Tax Code) with GN DC1, LLC, ad valorem property tax abatement up to 10 years on eligible improvements; amended 2025 to per-building Payments in Lieu of Taxes (PILOTs) of $1.35M/year/building once operational; original structure was $5.4M/year per phase ($10.8M/year at full build-out) for 10 years; county attorney noted total money would not change under amendment, Armstrong County, TX, 2024
- Community reception
- Supported
- Source confidence
- Confirmed by multiple independent sources or official documentation
Timeline from the record
Newest first. Record entries come from the filings and reports the registry cites. Coverage entries are headlines from publisher feeds we monitor daily, linked to the outlet; last checked September 14, 2026.
- 2025Under constructionGoogle confirmed partnership with Crusoe for Goodnight campus as part of $40B statewide Texas announcement, November 2025. Satellite imagery (Cleanview, Feb 24 2026) confirmed two buildings under active construction with roof installation and steel framing underway. Source: Data Center Dynamics
- 2024ProposedArmstrong County Commissioners Court approved tax abatement agreement with GN DC1, LLC (Crusoe Energy entity) at November 12, 2024 public hearing. Tenant not publicly named at that time. Source: Armstrong County, Texas
Opposition and litigation at this site
Not that we can document. Local officials or residents have expressed public support for Goodnight Campus in Claude, Armstrong County, Texas, and no opposition, petition, or lawsuit appears in the sources this registry tracks as of August 16, 2026. Armstrong County Commissioners Court approved the original tax abatement agreement unanimously at the November 12, 2024 public hearing.
How the community has taken it
Reception is a sourced signal, not an editorial judgment: supported means local officials or residents have expressed public support and no opposition is documented.
Armstrong County Commissioners Court approved the original tax abatement agreement unanimously at the November 12, 2024 public hearing. The amended PILOT structure was also approved unanimously in 2025 after hearing from elected officials from multiple taxing entities and members of the public. County Judge Adam Ensey publicly supported the amendment, noting it allows revenue collection to begin with each completed building rather than waiting for phase completion. Initial county payment expected June/July 2026.
Power and water
Crusoe Energy filed TCEQ air construction permit (TCEQ announcement Feb 5, 2026) for a 933 MW natural gas power plant on-site at the Goodnight campus. Gas plant operates off-grid with no ERCOT grid connection for this generation asset. No carbon capture technology. Estimated emissions up to 4.5 million tons CO2/year and 1,600 tons criteria air pollutants/year per permit application. A portion of the campus also co-locates behind the meter with Goodnight Wind farm (265.5 MW, Serena Energy, came online 2024) under Texas SB6 net metering arrangement; proposal submitted to Public Utility Commission of Texas (PUCT), regulatory review ongoing as of mid-2026. Separate TCEQ wastewater permit WQ0016881001 filed under same entity, indicating water/utility infrastructure planning underway.
No water volume or cooling system type disclosed in sources reviewed. TCEQ wastewater permit WQ0016881001 filed under the same GN DC1 LLC entity, indicating water infrastructure is being permitted; no public details available on cooling approach or projected water consumption.
Public money on the record
| Program | Amount | Granted by | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Armstrong County Tax Abatement Agreement (Chapter 312, Texas Tax Code) with GN DC1, LLC, ad valorem property tax abatement up to 10 years on eligible improvements; amended 2025 to per-building Payments in Lieu of Taxes (PILOTs) of $1.35M/year/building once operational; original structure was $5.4M/year per phase ($10.8M/year at full build-out) for 10 years; county attorney noted total money would not change under amendment | Not established | Armstrong County, TX | 2024 |
Notes on the record
Campus name: Goodnight, near the town of Claude, TX (known address: 10001 Lima Rd, Claude, TX 79019). Coordinates approximate (based on dispatch seed; county parcel area). Developed by Crusoe Energy via entity GN DC1, LLC (Delaware LLC, 255 Filmore St., Denver, CO 80206); Google is the hyperscale tenant/customer, confirmed publicly November 2025. Tax abatement agreement was signed with GN DC1, LLC in late 2024 without publicly naming the tenant. Google confirmed the Crusoe partnership but had not signed an offtake agreement for the on-site gas plant as of early 2026; negotiations on power amounts still ongoing per Google spokesperson. Planned IT capacity: Phase 1 described in tax abatement agreement as 'anticipated to consume up to 530 MW,' 4 buildings each with 4 x 25 MW data halls, on approximately 350 acres; Phase 2 (possible additional 3+ buildings) reported at up to ~500 MW additional; combined full build-out reported as 1 GW+, all capacity figures are 'up to' ceilings from permit and abatement documents, not firm contracted amounts. Project was scaled back from an original 7-building plan (October 2025 local reporting); 4 buildings with construction permits from TDLR as of early 2026; Crusoe described 3-4 buildings as likely; grading on additional parcels suggests total program may reach 5+ buildings. First phase expected online 2026; initial county PILOT payment expected June/July 2026. The $40B Google Texas investment is a statewide commitment through 2027 covering multiple sites (Armstrong County, Haskell County, Ellis County) with no site-specific investment figure disclosed by Google. A $29B campus investment figure appeared in Aterio/Crusoe reporting, this is a projected ceiling, not a firm committed amount; omitted from investmentUsd per data-rigor policy. Distinct from Google's separate Haskell County TX site and Red Oak (Ellis County) TX sites, do not conflate. Building 3 is scheduled for completion 2026-08-01; Building 4 is due March 2027. Nothing at the campus is yet described as operational.
What the record does not establish, and the document that would
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- Permanent jobs promised
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Our reporting on this site
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Questions people ask about this site
Is there opposition to the Goodnight Campus in Claude?
Not that we can document. Local officials or residents have expressed public support for Goodnight Campus in Claude, Armstrong County, Texas, and no opposition, petition, or lawsuit appears in the sources this registry tracks as of August 16, 2026. Armstrong County Commissioners Court approved the original tax abatement agreement unanimously at the November 12, 2024 public hearing.
Has anyone filed a lawsuit over the Goodnight Campus?
The reception note on this record refers to a court proceeding. Read it in full under opposition and litigation above, and check the sources at the foot of the page for the filing itself.
How much water does Goodnight Campus use?
No water withdrawal figure for Goodnight Campus is on record here. Cooling is recorded as unknown, which is the strongest available clue: closed loop and air cooled plant draw far less than evaporative cooling. We leave the number blank rather than estimate one.
Who operates Goodnight Campus, and how big is it?
Google / Crusoe is the operator on record. We hold 53 sites for that company across the registry. Capacity on record is 933 MW. The site is recorded at 350 acres.
How to cite this page
SueDataCenters.org Data Center Registry, "Goodnight Campus," updated August 16, 2026, https://suedatacenters.org/data-centers/google-armstrong-county-tx.
Facility data from Compute Atlas (E. Kubiak), version 1.32.0 (September 7, 2026), licensed CC BY 4.0, record https://www.compute-atlas.com/facilities/google-armstrong-county-tx, retrieved September 14, 2026.
Corrections with a public source are welcome at the Compute Atlas record or through our contact page. The whole registry is available as CSV and JSON under CC BY 4.0.
Sources for this record
As compiled and cited by Compute Atlas, with our own reporting appended. Archived links are used where the original has moved.
- 1.Google commits $40bn to expand cloud and AI infrastructure in Texas through 2027 · Data Center Dynamics · retrieved July 7, 2026
- 2.Google to Use Natural Gas to Power Massive Data Center in Texas · Yale Environment 360 · retrieved July 7, 2026
- 3.Google Is Considering Natural Gas Without Carbon Capture in Its AI Data Center Strategy · Distilled · retrieved July 7, 2026
- 4.How a Crusoe-Google campus became Texas' co-location test case · Latitude Media · retrieved July 7, 2026
- 5.Google Launches 1-GW-Plus Co-Located Data Center and Generation Complex in Texas Panhandle · Power Magazine · retrieved July 7, 2026
- 6.Armstrong County AI data center project scaled back from original plan · NewsChannel 10 (Amarillo) · retrieved July 7, 2026
- 7.Tax Abatement Agreement between Armstrong County, Texas and GN DC1, LLC (Phase 1) · Armstrong County, Texas · retrieved July 7, 2026
- 8.Crusoe Plans $1B Texas AI Data Center Expansion, Pursues Nuclear Power · The Energy Mag · retrieved July 31, 2026
- 9.Google to Use Natural Gas to Power Massive Data Center in Texas · Yale Environment 360 · retrieved August 16, 2026
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