Governor of Nebraska
Governor Pillen said the task force will ensure county officials have necessary tools, zoning guidelines and policy frameworks to manage data center growth effectively
Google Lincoln Data Center
Google shared an update on its data center project in Lincoln, Nebraska. It is reported, as reported August 18, 2026.
How much power it needs, how much water it would use and who would use it have not been disclosed.
How to read this page. Every fact links to the source it rests on; a number in brackets is its place in the source list. A figure no source gives reads Not disclosed, and nothing is estimated. Where sources give different figures, each is shown with who gave it, and another source's figure never stands in for the record's own. Entries are added and never overwritten; corrections are listed under What happened.
What is known
Each figure as its source gave it. The number in brackets is its place in the source list.
- Land
- Not disclosed
- Power it would draw
- Not disclosed
- Water
- Not disclosed
- Who leads it
- as stated by the source
- Who would use it
- Not disclosed
- Jobs once it runs
- Not disclosed
- Tax each year
- Not disclosed
Every field, with who said it and when (Researcher view)
Impact figures
| Field | Value | Who says so | Source | Last verified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| How much power it needs | Not disclosed | |||
| How much water it would use | Not disclosed | |||
| How loud it would be | Not disclosed | |||
| Jobs once it runs | Not disclosed | |||
| Tax it would pay each year | Not disclosed |
The record's fields
| Field | Value | Who says so | Source | Last verified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Who is building it | as stated by the source | September 17, 2026 | ||
| Who is constructing it | Not disclosed | |||
| How much land | Not disclosed | |||
| Where its power comes from | Not disclosed | |||
| Grid connection | Not disclosed | |||
| How it is cooled | Not disclosed |
The developer's figure is what the company said; what a permit allows is the ceiling a permit sets; measured means observed. Water is in gallons a day or a year, whichever the source stated; a tax claim given as a range shows both ends, each linked to the source that gave it.
Still not public, and where it would show up
The record adds each the day a source gives it. Why these documents.
- Water useA state water right filing or a water supply agreement.
- Who would use itA lease announcement or a tenant named in a filing.
- Power the campus would drawA utility or public service commission docket, an interconnection filing, or an air permit for an on site plant.
- Jobs and taxAn incentive agreement, a county's economic development filing or a fiscal note.
What was decided
Acts of Lancaster County and Lincoln about data centers, on the record with their source. A rule about the area is not a decision about this record.
| Date | Who | Decision | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hallam | Village board vote to approve data center scheduled for October 5 at Hallam village board meeting | omaha.com | |
| Hallam | Hallam planning commission unanimously recommended approval for Monolith's proposed data center | omaha.com | |
| Lancaster County | Board includes representatives from Nebraska Public Power District, Lincoln Electric System, Lower Platte South Natural Resources District, Lincoln Chamber of Commerce and five members of public | omaha.com | |
| Lancaster County | Task force will report to Lincoln Lancaster County Planning Commission by end of year | omaha.com | |
| Lancaster County | Task force will meet approximately six times from October to December 2026 | omaha.com | |
| Lancaster County | Lancaster County Board approved creation of 15 member task force charged with recommending land use regulations | omaha.com |
9 earlier decisions on the county's rows
| Date | Who | Decision | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lancaster County | Application for Task Force volunteers is open until September 25, 2026 | klkntv.com | |
| Lancaster County | Task Force will meet six times over a three month period from October to December 2026 | klkntv.com | |
| Lancaster County | Lancaster County Board of Commissioners is forming a Data Center Task Force to study guidelines for data center use, potential locations and procedural policies | klkntv.com | |
| Lancaster County | Lancaster County Board created 13 member task force to review data center proposal and recommend regulations to Planning Commission by end of year | starherald.com | |
| Lancaster County | Task force charged with reviewing data center proposal and recommending regulations to Planning Commission by end of year | omaha.com | |
| Lancaster County | Lancaster County board decided to create a 13 member data center task force | omaha.com | |
| Lincoln | City of Lincoln announced it would not pursue additional large scale data centers outside Google's site near North 35th Street and Interstate 80 | journalstar.com | |
| Lancaster County | Matt Schulte, Lancaster County Commissioner, proposed moratorium late last month after Israeli company appeared to plan hyperscale data center near Hallam | journalstar.com | |
| Lancaster County | Lancaster County considering moratorium on data center construction | journalstar.com |
What happened
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· Status: rumored (source date; the content gives no date of its own)
The task force's first meeting was anticipated in September 2026 [2]
The full Google Lincoln Data Center timeline, in order
2 corrections to this record
Every correction, with its reason
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· the kind of source of a history entry
The source was labeled with the Google News search that found it; it now carries its outlet's tier (the record's rules of 2026-09-23). The link did not change. The day's label corrections.
Every correction on the record is on the corrections page.
What was said
Lancaster County Commissioner Christa Yoakum stated that Lancaster County has very little land zoned industrial and would not have enough property in one place for a data center under current zoning.
Maureen Larsen, Director of Economic Development, said the state wants to be supportive of data center projects when in Nebraska's best interest while guarding against out of state entities extracting resources
Every statement about data centers in Nebraska, by speaker
7 more statements on this page
Jim Pillen, Governor of Nebraska
Task force membership includes 17 officials including executives from Berkshire Hathaway Energy, Tenaska, OPPD, NPPD, Lincoln Electric System, and county commissioners from multiple jurisdictions
Senator
Sen. Mike Jacobson indicated willingness to introduce a bill to remove data centers from the Imagine Nebraska Act
Governor
Gov. Pillen said data centers should not receive tax incentives and the state should attract givers not takers
Governor
Gov. Jim Pillen said Nebraska is appealing because of available land, low electrical rates and abundant water, but has also provided tax incentives to data centers
Jim Pillen, Governor
The executive order will create a task force to propose safeguards to protect the state's natural resources from data center use
Governor
Gov. Pillen said the executive order will suspend state tax incentives for large scale data centers
The site
Where in Lancaster County is not in the public record. The pin marks the county seat, not a building, and the outline is the county.
Tap a pin for the data center, the parcel for its record
- This record: Proposed, ringed
- data center
- Dashed edge: the exact site is not in the public record
- Smaller pins: 11 other published records in Nebraska
Details
- this record's location, ringed
- parcel outline, from the county parcel record
- city limits, U.S. Census Bureau, on a town level record
- county boundary
The other pins are the published projects in the same state, each in its stage color. The imagery beneath is the USGS national orthoimagery, public domain, shown so the land around the site can be read.
- Where
- Lincoln, Lancaster County, Nebraska
- How exactly it is located
- County level, the county seat
- The parcel
- No parcel outline in the public record
- Nearest homes
- Not computed for a record placed at a place center
- Nearest records
- Nearest records are not computed for a record placed at a county seat.
Questions about this project
4 questions answered from the record
Who is building Google Lincoln Data Center?
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Google is the developer. No construction contractor is named on the record yet.
How much power and water does Google Lincoln Data Center say it needs?
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Power: not disclosed by any source on file. Water: not disclosed by any source on file.
Where does Google Lincoln Data Center stand today?
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It is reported, as reported August 18, 2026. The newest entry, reported August 18, 2026: The task force's first meeting was anticipated in September 2026 [2].
What has Lincoln or Lancaster County decided about it?
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Hallam: Village board vote to approve data center scheduled for October 5 at Hallam village board meeting (reported September 18, 2026, source); and Hallam: Hallam planning commission unanimously recommended approval for Monolith's proposed data center (reported September 18, 2026, source). 15 events are on the county's rows; a rule about the area is not a decision about this record.
Sources
Primary documents
- Google: Data center locations, Google, September 14, 2026
Reporting
- Gov. Pillen appoints 17 members to Nebraska Data Center Task Force - KOLN | Nebraska Local News, Weather, Sports | Lincoln, NE, KOLN | Nebraska Local News, Weather, Sports | Lincoln, NE, August 18, 2026, local outlet
- Google shares update on Lincoln data center - KLKN-TV, KLKN-TV, August 6, 2026, local outlet
3 sources on file.
Cite this record
Data Center Record, "Google Lincoln Data Center", https://datacenterrecord.org/projects/google-lincoln-data-center-ne, last verified September 17, 2026.
Cite this page
Data Center Record, "Google Lincoln Data Center", https://datacenterrecord.org/projects/google-lincoln-data-center-ne. Data: Data Center Record, datacenterrecord.org, CC BY 4.0.
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For researchers
- Slug
- google-lincoln-data-center-ne
- Status value
- rumored
- Stage
- Proposed
- Tier
- skeleton
- Tags
- skeleton
- Place id
- us/ne/lancaster-county/lincoln
- Coordinates
- 40.80917, -96.67806
- Location precision
- county
- Location source
- County seat (Lincoln), Wikidata, placed at county level
- Coordinate source
- wikidata county seat
- Location source number
- Not disclosed
- Location last verified
- September 16, 2026
- EPA registry id
- Not disclosed
- Use type values
- not_disclosed
- Tenancy value
- not_disclosed
- Cooling type value
- not_disclosed
- Capacity basis
- not_disclosed
- Water basis
- not_disclosed, gallons_per_day
- Acreage basis
- Not disclosed
- Interconnection value
- not_disclosed
- Capacity, if disclosed
- Not disclosed
- Rating of the county's rows
- Case by case
- Published
- 2026-09-05
- Last verified
- 2026-09-17