Google acquires Crusoe's Wyoming data-center site after months of setbacks for the project

Denver-based AI infrastructure company Crusoe said on November 6 that Google has acquired the data-center site it had been preparing in southeast Wyoming. Neither company disclosed the price or other terms. The handover closes a project that had been in difficulty since the spring.

What Crusoe is handing over

According to Crusoe's announcement, its work on the site covered pre-development: choosing the location, securing government approvals and designing a power strategy. That strategy, developed with Tallgrass Energy, combines fuel cells, grid electricity and natural gas turbines, with a longer-term plan to capture carbon dioxide and store it at Tallgrass's regional sequestration hub. Crusoe says its involvement in the project ends with the sale. Chief executive Chase Lochmiller described the work as origination, entitlement and de-risking that left the site ready for construction.

The Next Web notes that when Crusoe and Tallgrass unveiled the campus in July 2025, they said it could eventually scale to 10 gigawatts.

A troubled path

The sale follows months of uncertainty. In June, Bloomberg reported, citing people familiar with the matter, that Crusoe had been pushed aside on the Cheyenne-area project after prospective customers, including Google, raised concerns about cost and construction time, as summarised by TechRadar. That report put the planned campus's peak power use at 1.8 gigawatts. Crusoe said at the time that it had paused development at a customer's request, while utility Black Hills said work would continue without Crusoe.

The Next Web adds that the deal came a day after Google announced a $17 billion investment in its first Wyoming data center, in Laramie County near Cheyenne. In that announcement, Google lists Tallgrass Energy and Black Hills Energy among its partners and describes a 702-megawatt fuel-cell project with carbon capture contracted through American Electric Power. Google's post does not mention Crusoe, and neither company has said publicly how the acquired site fits into that plan.

What it means for Crusoe

Crusoe presents the outcome as part of its normal business of preparing large sites. The company says it has more than 6 gigawatts contracted and over 40 gigawatts in its pipeline, and it is separately building a data-center campus for Google in Armstrong County, Texas, near Amarillo. The Next Web also points to a $3.9 billion raise in September at a $30.9 billion valuation. The Wyoming episode nonetheless shows how site developers can lose control of a project when a hyperscale customer prefers to build on its own terms.