Google New Florence data center
Google lists a data center at New Florence, Missouri and says it is being built. It is being built, as reported August 28, 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 Montgomery County and New Florence 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Montgomery County | Preserve Montgomery County, LLC filed a case in February 2026 claiming the county violated Missouri's Sunshine Law in approving a data center. | abc17news.com | |
| Montgomery County | On September 15, 2026, Cole County judge dismissed the state of Missouri as a defendant but the case remains active against Montgomery County. | abc17news.com |
What happened
-
(the day the page was read; it gives no date of its own)
Google lists Google New Florence data center at New Florence, Missouri on its own page of data center locations, read September 14, 2026. [1]
-
(source date; the content gives no date of its own)
Synapse Data Center Inc. proposed 1 GW campus in Olds, Alberta in January 2026. [12]
-
· Status: being built (source date; the content gives no date of its own)
Google announced 15 billion USD investment in May 2026 for hyperscale data center campus in New Florence, Missouri including 500 MW additional power capacity. [12]
-
(content date)
Montgomery County Commission unanimously approved tax incentive package for Google data center [11]
-
· Status: approved (content date)
Google announced $15 billion investment in data center in New Florence, Montgomery County, Missouri [10]
The full Google New Florence data center timeline, in order
7 corrections to this record
Every correction, with its reason
-
· the merged into of a projects row
The same project on two records: the $15 billion Google data center at New Florence, Montgomery County, Missouri (history entry 583 of the retired record says so). Merged into the New Florence record on the editor's word, 2026-09-23; its sources and history moved with it, its name is kept as an alias, and its address redirects. merged google-missouri-ai-hyperscale-campus-mo into google-new-florence-data-center-mo: 3 sources moved, 0 duplicate sources dropped, "Google Missouri AI Hyperscale Campus" kept as an alias The old and new text.
-
· 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.
-
· 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.
-
· 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.
-
· 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: komu.com is a news outlet (tiered by kind, the record's rules of 2026-09-23). The link did not change. The day's label corrections.
-
· 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: komu.com is a news outlet (tiered by kind, the record's rules of 2026-09-23). The link did not change. The day's label corrections.
-
· the draft of a status history row
Published by a promotion without passing through Approve on 2026-09-08; returned to draft and opened as an Inbox card. The old and new text.
Every correction on the record is on the corrections page.
What was said
Katie Ottenweller, Google energy market development, stated Google will pay for 100% of power costs to serve data center operations
Geoff Marke, Missouri Office of Public Counsel chief economist, stated public counsel recommends community support be required for AI data center companies
The site
Where in New Florence is not in the public record. The pin marks the center of New Florence, not a building, and the outline is Montgomery County.
Tap a pin for the data center, the parcel for its record
- This record: Being built, ringed
- data center
- Dashed edge: the exact site is not in the public record
- Smaller pins: 17 other published records in Missouri
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
- New Florence, Montgomery County, Missouri
- How exactly it is located
- Town level, the center of the city
- 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 the center of its town.
Questions about this project
4 questions answered from the record
Who is building Google New Florence data center?
-
Google is the developer. No construction contractor is named on the record yet.
How much power and water does Google New Florence data center say it needs?
-
Power: not disclosed by any source on file. Water: not disclosed by any source on file.
Where does Google New Florence data center stand today?
-
It is being built, as reported August 28, 2026. The newest entry, reported August 28, 2026: Synapse Data Center Inc. proposed 1 GW campus in Olds, Alberta in January 2026. [12]
What has New Florence or Montgomery County decided about it?
-
Montgomery County: Preserve Montgomery County, LLC filed a case in February 2026 claiming the county violated Missouri's Sunshine Law in approving a data center. (reported September 18, 2026, source); and Montgomery County: On September 15, 2026, Cole County judge dismissed the state of Missouri as a defendant but the case remains active against Montgomery County. (September 15, 2026, source). 2 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
- Missouri Data Center to Receive $15 Billion from Google, Largest Single Investment in State History - Construction Review, Construction Review, May 21, 2026, query feed
- Google data center in rural Missouri plan raises tax and transparency questions - KCUR, KCUR, May 23, 2026, query feed
- Google Announces $15B Data Center Investment in Missouri - tedmag.com, tedmag.com, May 21, 2026, query feed
- Timeline: Montgomery County considers data center proposals - KOMU 8, KOMU 8, January 22, 2026, query feed
- Google Invests Billions in New Missouri Data Center - Readers.id, Readers.id, May 24, 2026, query feed
- 'Our fields are becoming buildings': $15B data center begins to reshape rural life in Missouri - kvue.com, kvue.com, May 24, 2026, query feed
- Google Commits $15 Billion to Build Beside Amazon in Rural Missouri - globaldatacenterhub.com, globaldatacenterhub.com, May 31, 2026, query feed
- Google plans huge Missouri data center amid AI boom - Latest news from Azerbaijan, Latest news from Azerbaijan, May 21, 2026, query feed
- Missouri governor and Google announce $15 billion data center in Montgomery County, KOMU 8, May 20, 2026, local outlet
- Montgomery County approves a tax incentive package for Google data center, KOMU 8, June 11, 2026, local outlet
- North America Data Center Construction Market Report 2026-2031 Now Available — Published as Google Commits $15B to New Missouri AI Hyperscale Campus - Yahoo Finance, Yahoo Finance, August 28, 2026, local outlet
12 sources on file.
Cite this record
Data Center Record, "Google New Florence data center", https://datacenterrecord.org/projects/google-new-florence-data-center-mo, last verified September 17, 2026.
Cite this page
Data Center Record, "Google New Florence data center", https://datacenterrecord.org/projects/google-new-florence-data-center-mo. Data: Data Center Record, datacenterrecord.org, CC BY 4.0.
The structured rows are CC BY 4.0. Link to this page; that is what turns a reuse into a citation. Prose stays under copyright.
For researchers
- Slug
- google-new-florence-data-center-mo
- Status value
- under_construction
- Stage
- Being built
- Tier
- skeleton
- Tags
- skeleton
- Place id
- us/mo/montgomery-county/new-florence
- Coordinates
- 38.9093325, -91.4529412
- Location precision
- city
- Location source
- U.S. Census Bureau TIGERweb city centroid, public domain
- Coordinate source
- tigerweb city centroid
- Location source number
- Not disclosed
- Location last verified
- September 14, 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
- Not disclosed
- Published
- 2026-09-14
- Last verified
- 2026-09-17