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Google Wilbarger County Campus
Vernon, Wilbarger County, Texas · All 53 Google sites · Every Google case on our tracker
Google Wilbarger County Campus is a data center under construction in Vernon, Texas (Wilbarger County), operated by Google. The public record puts it at announced 2026.
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Facility record
Under construction
- Operator
- Facility type
- Data center, AI use confirmed
- Location
- Vernon, Wilbarger County, TX
- Coordinates
- 34.1551, -99.2940
- 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
- Not established from a public source
- Power source
- Grid
- Cooling
- air
- 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
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 announced a new air-cooled data center in Wilbarger County in a 'power-first' initiative with AES Source: Google
Opposition and litigation at this site
Nothing on record as of July 7, 2026. No lawsuit, organized opposition, or contested hearing over Google Wilbarger County Campus in Vernon, Wilbarger County, Texas 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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Power and water
'Power-first' initiative with AES; air-cooled.
Notes on the record
Air-cooled data center near Vernon, Wilbarger County, a Google/AES 'power-first' initiative. Part of Google's broader Texas expansion. IT capacity not disclosed. Coordinates are the Vernon area centroid.
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
- 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.
- 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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Questions people ask about this site
Is there opposition to the Google Wilbarger County Campus in Vernon?
Nothing on record as of July 7, 2026. No lawsuit, organized opposition, or contested hearing over Google Wilbarger County Campus in Vernon, Wilbarger County, Texas 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 Wilbarger County Campus?
No lawsuit over Google Wilbarger County Campus appears in the record we track as of July 7, 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 Wilbarger County Campus use?
No water withdrawal figure for Google Wilbarger County Campus 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 Wilbarger County Campus, 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 Wilbarger County Campus," updated July 7, 2026, https://suedatacenters.org/data-centers/google-wilbarger-vernon-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-wilbarger-vernon-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.A new data center in Wilbarger County, Texas · Google · retrieved July 7, 2026
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