Google Takes Over Crusoe's Wyoming Site After Customer Miss

Crusoe said on Thursday that Google has acquired its southeast Wyoming data center site, the same Laramie County campus Google priced the day before at $17 billion. The AI infrastructure company had handled "data center site selection, governmental approvals, and power strategy" for the project before handing it over.

Bloomberg reports Crusoe was pushed aside in June after Google raised concerns about costs and timing, and after the startup failed to sign customers for the site. The campus had been developed with Blackstone-backed Tallgrass Energy since mid-2025, aiming to eventually reach 10 GW. When Google announced the build this week, its named partners were Tallgrass Energy, Black Hills Energy, American Electric Power and Related Digital. Crusoe was no longer among them.

The story slots into a dense run of infrastructure coverage on our tracker, including 474 AI-infrastructure alerts in the last 90 days and Tuesday's note on the $17B Wyoming pledge itself. What changes in Wyoming is who owns the asset, not whether it gets built.

Crusoe frames the exit as a milestone rather than a loss. It says it has "more than 6 GW under contract and over 40 GW in its pipeline," is still building a separate Google campus near Amarillo, Texas, and in September raised $3.9 billion at a $30.9 billion valuation. Terms of the Wyoming sale were not disclosed. The handoff ends Crusoe's development role on the Laramie County site. It does not end its relationship with the customer.