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Google Meitner Energy Center
Pampa, Gray County, Texas · All 61 Google sites · Every Google case on our tracker
Google Meitner Energy Center is a data center under construction in Pampa, Texas (Gray County), operated by Google. The public record puts it at announced 2026. It has documented support and documented opposition on record.
Every line on this page traces to a public source listed at the bottom. Where a figure was looked for and not found, the row says so. A blank is never a zero.
Facility record
Under construction
- Operator
- Facility type
- Data center, AI use confirmed
- Location
- Pampa, Gray County, TX
- Coordinates
- 35.5365, -100.9609 (approximate)
- Power capacity
- Not established from a public source
- Land
- Not established from a public source
- Investment
- Not established from a public source
- Announced
- 2026
- Utility
- Co-located on-site generation (Intersect Power)
- Power source
- Mixed
- Cooling
- air
- Water use
- Not established from a public source
- Jobs
- Not established from a public source
- Public subsidy
- Gray County Chapter 312 property-tax abatement - cooling that does not rely on water required as a condition (per NewsChannel 10), Gray County, TX, 2025
- Community reception
- Mixed reception
- 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.
- 2026Under constructionGoogle and Intersect Power announced a new data center built alongside new co-located energy generation in Gray and Roberts Counties, TX Source: Intersect Power
Opposition and litigation at this site
Partly. Both documented support and documented opposition to Google Meitner Energy Center in Pampa, Gray County, Texas appear in the record, with no clear majority position. Gray County abatement approved on a split 3-1 commissioners' vote (per local reporting); documented public opposition over Ogallala Aquifer groundwater from area agricultural producers, alongside chamber, mayor, and county-judge support.
How the community has taken it
Reception is a sourced signal, not an editorial judgment: mixed reception means documented support and documented opposition both exist with no clear majority position on record.
Gray County abatement approved on a split 3-1 commissioners' vote (per local reporting); documented public opposition over Ogallala Aquifer groundwater from area agricultural producers, alongside chamber, mayor, and county-judge support.
Power and water
Built directly alongside new co-located Intersect Power generation - >1 GW of wind, solar, and battery storage with on-site gas-fired firming (component MW undisclosed). The data center is largely off-grid, powered by the co-located generation (mayor: 'on the electricity side, it's all off-grid').
Air-cooling used in place of evaporative cooling to eliminate cooling-tower water withdrawals - a required condition of the Gray County Chapter 312 tax abatement. Ogallala Aquifer protection was the central abatement concern.
Public money on the record
| Program | Amount | Granted by | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gray County Chapter 312 property-tax abatement - cooling that does not rely on water required as a condition (per NewsChannel 10) | Not established | Gray County, TX | 2025 |
Notes on the record
Data center co-located with new energy generation, spanning Gray and Roberts counties near Pampa. Part of Google's ~$40B Texas commitment; Google took a stake in Intersect Power. IT capacity not disclosed. Coordinates are the Pampa area centroid. NewsChannel 10 (January 2026) calls it a $3 billion project, quoting the mayor; As of October 2026, the Intersect announcement states no project cost, so no investment figure is recorded. The same report says the data center will employ "up to 30 workers or more per building" across three planned buildings; the facility is not yet operational, so no job count is recorded.
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
- Permanent jobs promised
- Land area
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.
- 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.
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Questions people ask about this site
Is there opposition to the Google Meitner Energy Center data center in Pampa?
Partly. Both documented support and documented opposition to Google Meitner Energy Center in Pampa, Gray County, Texas appear in the record, with no clear majority position. Gray County abatement approved on a split 3-1 commissioners' vote (per local reporting); documented public opposition over Ogallala Aquifer groundwater from area agricultural producers, alongside chamber, mayor, and county-judge support.
Has anyone filed a lawsuit over the Google Meitner Energy Center data center?
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 Google Meitner Energy Center use?
No water withdrawal figure for Google Meitner Energy Center is on record here. Cooling is recorded as air, 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 Google Meitner Energy Center, and how big is it?
Google is the operator on record. We hold 61 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 Meitner Energy Center," updated October 28, 2026, https://suedatacenters.org/data-centers/google-meitner-pampa-tx.
Facility data from Compute Atlas (E. Kubiak), version 1.34.1 (October 4, 2026), licensed CC BY 4.0, record https://www.compute-atlas.com/facilities/google-meitner-pampa-tx, retrieved October 29, 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 and Intersect deepen Texas roots with new data center and energy investments in Gray and Roberts Counties · Intersect Power · retrieved July 7, 2026
- 2.Google launches 1 GW+ co-located data center and generation complex in Texas Panhandle · POWER Magazine · retrieved July 8, 2026
- 3.Pampa's $3 billion AI data center signals new era of growth in Gray County · NewsChannel 10 · retrieved July 8, 2026
- 4.Intersect Power's project ignites Ogallala Aquifer protection talks in Gray County · ABC 7 Amarillo · retrieved July 8, 2026
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