Wire reporting: (Reuters, via CNA)

Crusoe said Friday that Google has acquired its data-center site in southeast Wyoming, ending Crusoe's pre-development role on site selection, government approvals and a hybrid power plan worked up with Tallgrass Energy^1,2.

TechCrunch reported Google is taking over an unfinished project after concerns about cost and construction timing under Crusoe; the companies did not disclose the sale price².

Google has said it will invest $17 billion in Wyoming data-center capacity, with an initial 702-megawatt fuel-cell development using carbon capture, partners including Tallgrass, Black Hills Energy, American Electric Power and Related Digital, and air cooling to limit water use^5,8,2.

Crusoe CEO Chase Lochmiller said the Wyoming work set the project up for construction and that Crusoe still has more than 6 gigawatts contracted and over 40 gigawatts in its pipeline¹.

Crusoe remains the developer of a Google campus under construction in Armstrong County, Texas, outside Amarillo^1,2.

WyoFile noted local skepticism, including a University of Wyoming poll that found 30% support for more large AI data centers⁵.

Bloomberg reported in June that Crusoe was pushed aside on the Wyoming AI project after Google's concerns; Crusoe later raised $3.9 billion in September².

A timeframe for first buildings and how the $17 billion would be spent year by year were not set out in Crusoe's note or in Thursday's local coverage^1,5.

Crusoe said the Wyoming campus was begun with Tallgrass through parallel power and data-center work, combining fuel cells, grid power and natural-gas turbines with a longer-term carbon-capture path via Tallgrass's regional CO2 hub^1,5.