Data Center Registry
Google Lincoln Data Center
Lincoln, Lancaster County, Nebraska · All 53 Google sites · Every Google case on our tracker
Google Lincoln Data Center is a data center under construction in Lincoln, Nebraska (Lancaster County), operated by Google. The public record puts it at announced 2023.
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Facility record
Under construction
- Operator
- Facility type
- Data center
- Location
- Lincoln, Lancaster County, NE
- Coordinates
- 40.8100, -96.6750 (approximate)
- Power capacity
- Not established from a public source
- Land
- Not established from a public source
- Investment
- Not established from a public source
- Announced
- 2023
- Utility
- Not established from a public source
- Cooling
- Not established from a public source
- Water use
- Not established from a public source
- Jobs
- Not established from a public source
- Public subsidy
- Not established from a public source
- Community reception
- No reception on record
- Source confidence
- Confirmed by multiple independent sources or official documentation
Opposition and litigation at this site
Nothing on record as of September 10, 2026. No lawsuit, organized opposition, or contested hearing over Google Lincoln Data Center in Lincoln, Lancaster County, Nebraska appears in the sources this registry tracks. That is an absence in our sources rather than a finding that none exists, and local opposition often predates any coverage a national dataset would pick up.
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Notes on the record
Google's FOURTH Nebraska site by official count and genuinely distinct from both Papillion (Sarpy Co.) and Omaha (Douglas Co.) -- also DISTINCT from the separate proposed Google/Tenaska gas-plant mega-campus already tracked as google-nebraska-ai-campus-proposed (that one is a ~4-county, still-undeveloped 1,000-3,000MW proposal; this one is Google's confirmed, currently-building third/fourth site in north Lincoln). Google's own Nebraska locations page (fetched) confirms Lincoln as a distinct site, 'development announced in 2023', part of a $1.2B investment announced that year across all three then-existing NE locations. A local TV station (KLKN, fetched) confirms the site is 'currently operational with ongoing construction phases' with roughly 200 on-site personnel, and that Google has committed to work with the city on water infrastructure; the city says it is not currently approving additional data centers beyond this one. IMPORTANT CAVEAT: widely-repeated secondary figures for this project (codename 'Agate', ~580 acres, ~$600M, sited northwest of N. 56th St & I-80) come from outlets that 403'd or paywalled on direct fetch this session (Lincoln Journal Star/tollbit, Nebraska Examiner) -- those specific numbers are NOT independently verified here and are omitted from the structured fields (capacityMw/investmentUsd/landAcres) rather than risk propagating an unverified figure; coordinates are Lincoln-city-center-level only. Recommend a follow-up pass to re-fetch a non-paywalled primary source for the acreage/investment/MW specifics. Public-reception check (2026-09-10): Checked Google's own data center locations page (2026-09-10); it describes community partnerships/workforce programs in generic marketing terms but documents no specific public hearing, resident testimony, or independently-reported local reaction.
What the record does not establish, and the document that would
In every fight on our tracker the decisive fact came out of a public records request. These are the requests for this site.
- Power capacity in megawatts
- Cooling method and water use
- Tax abatements or other public subsidy
- Permanent jobs promised
- Land area
- How the community has received it
- Which utility serves it
Which document closes each gap
- Power capacity in megawatts
- The utility's large load service agreement, the interconnection request in the grid operator's queue, or the electrical site plan in the permit file.
- Cooling method and water use
- The water service agreement, any groundwater appropriation permit, and the mechanical narrative in the site plan.
- Tax abatements or other public subsidy
- The abatement, PILOT, or development agreement approved by the county, city, or development authority, and the state's data center sales tax exemption certificate if one was issued.
- Permanent jobs promised
- The economic development application or incentive agreement, which usually states a job commitment and a clawback.
- Land area
- The rezoning application, the plat, or the deed recorded with the county.
- How the community has received it
- Planning commission and governing body minutes, public comment records, and any petition or lawsuit filed in the county.
- Which utility serves it
- The electric service agreement or the utility's filing with the state public utility commission.
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Our reporting on this site
Other sites within 30 miles
Distances are between recorded coordinates, many of which are a city or county centroid, so treat them as approximate. Cumulative load on one utility and one aquifer is the question a planning commission rarely asks.
- Binary Net The Vault Data Center · Lincoln · Binary Net1 mi · Operating
- Sagebrush Hallam Hyperscale Campus (proposed) · Hallam · Sagebrush Infrastructure Partners19 mi · Proposed · 1.7 GW · Contested
- Google Nebraska AI Campus (proposed) · Google28 mi · Proposed · 1 GW · Contested
Questions people ask about this site
Is there opposition to the Google Lincoln Data Center in Lincoln?
Nothing on record as of September 10, 2026. No lawsuit, organized opposition, or contested hearing over Google Lincoln Data Center in Lincoln, Lancaster County, Nebraska appears in the sources this registry tracks. That is an absence in our sources rather than a finding that none exists, and local opposition often predates any coverage a national dataset would pick up.
Has anyone filed a lawsuit over the Google Lincoln Data Center?
No lawsuit over Google Lincoln Data Center appears in the record we track as of September 10, 2026. Residents most often reach a lawyer over water supply, well drawdown, noise from cooling plant, property value, or a rezoning approved without the notice the ordinance required. If any of that is happening near this site, it is worth a review whether or not a case has been filed yet.
How much water does Google Lincoln Data Center use?
No water withdrawal figure for Google Lincoln Data Center is on record here. Water use is rarely published voluntarily; it usually surfaces through a utility service agreement or a state withdrawal permit, both of which are public records. We leave the number blank rather than estimate one.
Who operates Google Lincoln Data Center, and how big is it?
Google is the operator on record. We hold 53 sites for that company across the registry. No capacity figure is on record for this site.
How to cite this page
SueDataCenters.org Data Center Registry, "Google Lincoln Data Center," updated September 10, 2026, https://suedatacenters.org/data-centers/google-lincoln-ne.
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-lincoln-ne, 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.Nebraska, USA -- Google Data Center Location · Google · retrieved August 8, 2026
- 2.Google shares update on Lincoln data center · KLKN-TV (Lincoln) · retrieved August 8, 2026
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