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Google Armstrong County data center, in order

What happened with this project, oldest first: the stages it reached, what the county and its cities decided, and every dated step on the record. Each entry links its source.

1 event, June 1, 2025 to June 1, 2025. Also on the record, under the month each belongs to: 6 figures from other sources and 11 lines that are not events of their own. The facts, newest first: the record; the place: Texas.

A plain date is the day it happened, as the source states it, or as the line's own sentence states it ("voted on July 6"), which is where the line sits even when it was filed later. "Reported" and a date is the day a source published a line that carries no date of its own. Those lines, and lines that describe rather than report an act, sit under their month rather than on the timeline, with what was said and the figures other sources gave. Every timeline on the site reads its lines by this one rule. How dates are read.

Stages

  1. being built

Now: being built. A stage is the record's status after the entry that set it (the definitions).

2025 1 event

  1. (content date)

    being built

    Groundbreaking was in June 2025 with more than 5,500 skilled laborers on site daily [12]

2026 17 under the months

  1. Also in September 2026: 6 figures from other sources and 11 lines that are not events of their own

    1. (source date; the content gives no date of its own)

      Entry

      Data center project under construction in Claude off Lima Road [14]

    2. (source date; the content gives no date of its own)

      Decision · Armstrong County (county)

      Crusoe and Google hosting community open house for Armstrong County residents newschannel10.com

    3. (the day the page was read; it gives no date of its own)

      Entry

      Google lists Google Armstrong County data center at Armstrong County, Texas on its own page of data center locations, read September 14, 2026. [1]

    4. (source date; the content gives no date of its own)

      Entry

      Construction underway on six building Claude data center hosted by Google and Crusoe. [13]

    5. (source date; the content gives no date of its own)

      Entry

      Google committed to 50 permanent jobs once operational [11]

    6. (source date; the content gives no date of its own)

      Entry

      primary power source will be the nearby Goodnight 1 and 2 wind farms, with ERCOT grid as backup [11]

    7. (source date; the content gives no date of its own)

      Entry

      water recirculates for a period of about 15 years [11]

    8. (source date; the content gives no date of its own)

      Entry

      closed loop cooling system allowing water to continuously circulate [11]

    9. (source date; the content gives no date of its own)

      Entry

      construction expected to wrap up by the end of 2027 [11]

    10. (source date; the content gives no date of its own)

      Entry

      first buildings expected to be turned over to Google in early 2027 [11]

    11. (source date; the content gives no date of its own)

      Entry

      six building data center campus [11]

    12. (source date; the content gives no date of its own)

      Figure · NewsChannel 10

      2,000,000 gallons a year: each building will use about 2 million gallons per year once operational NewsChannel 10 local outlet

    13. (source date; the content gives no date of its own)

      Figure · NewsChannel 10

      16 households: operational water use will be roughly equivalent to 16 households per building NewsChannel 10 local outlet

    14. (source date; the content gives no date of its own)

      Figure · NewsChannel 10

      7,500 employees: more than 7,500 employees and craft workers currently working at the site NewsChannel 10 local outlet

    15. (source date; the content gives no date of its own)

      Figure · NewsChannel 10

      600,000 gallons per day: water use averages about 600,000 gallons per day during early earthwork and concrete foundation work NewsChannel 10 local outlet

    16. (source date; the content gives no date of its own)

      Figure · NewsChannel 10

      850,000,000 USD: Project Llano could generate more than $850 million in local tax revenue over the life of the project, averaging about $28 million per year NewsChannel 10 local outlet

    17. (source date; the content gives no date of its own)

      Figure · NewsChannel 10

      275,000 gallons per day: water use expected to decline to about 275,000 gallons per day as buildings are enclosed NewsChannel 10 local outlet

On the timeline: a stage change; an entry that reports an act on the day the source or its own sentence gives; and a decision, a published scorecard event on a row at or under the record's county, that reports an act. Under the months: a statement that names this record, a figure another source gave about it, matched by place and developer, an entry dated only by the day its source was published, and an entry or a decision that describes rather than reports an act. Each is on the record in its own right and keeps its own link.

For researchers
Slug
google-armstrong-county-data-center-tx
Status value
under_construction
Events on the timeline
1
Under the months
17
Stage changes
1
Decisions
1
Statements
0
Figures
6
Entries and decisions under the months
11