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Project Llano (Crusoe / Google Goodnight Campus, Claude TX)

Project Llano is a tracked AI data center campus in Texas, Armstrong. Crusoe-developed campus for Google in Claude, Armstrong County, TX (Project Llano / Goodnight Campus). Six buildings under construction as of Sep 2026 open house; first Google handoff expected early 2027. Filed under Cru

Under construction · Crusoe · Private land · ERCOT · Armstrong, Texas, United States

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Project Llano (Crusoe / Google Goodnight Campus, Claude TX) capacity claims
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Key facts

under construction

Lifecycle

0 GW

Energized

Crusoe

Developer

United States

Location

ERCOT

Grid

private land

Land

Reported facts

Structured facts sourced from citations already on this record. Each fact traces to a source in the References section below.

Six-building campus under construction (Sep 2026)
Reported Sep 23 2026 (KFDA NewsChannel 10 open house with Google and Crusoe): Project Llano in Claude, Armstrong County, TX is a six-building campus under construction. Crusoe senior director Jeremy Bachrach said first buildings are expected to hand off to Google in early 2027, with construction wrapping by end of 2027. Google committed to 50 permanent jobs once operational. Local TV + company reps at open house; not a formal IR release
Closed-loop cooling + Goodnight wind power
Reported Sep 23 2026 (KFDA): campus uses closed-loop cooling (water filled once then recirculated ~15 years). Primary power from nearby Goodnight 1 and 2 wind farms, with ERCOT grid as backup. Construction-phase water use cited ~600k gpd early earthwork declining to ~275k gpd; operational estimate ~2M gallons/year per building (~16 households). Company-stated at open house
Goodnight Campus / GN DC1 filings (DCD Jul 2026)
Data Center Dynamics Jul 30 2026: campus also called Goodnight Campus at 10001 Lima Road, Claude, filed under Crusoe affiliate GN DC1 LLC; at least six single-story buildings per TDLR filings (mix of ~805k and ~485k sq ft). Phased go-live cited Aug 2026 to Feb 2027 in that earlier report; Sep 2026 open house updated first Google handoff to early 2027

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The story of Project Llano (Crusoe / Google Goodnight Campus, Claude TX)
Tenant
Google

Every figure is one row in the ledger below with its source. Derived rows are pure arithmetic on the rows above (not new claims). Absent lines mean the fact isn't on record yet.

In clusterArmstrong(4)·Texas(607)

The deal

developer
Crusoe
tenant
Google
grid operator
ERCOT

Power

Power source
mixed
Grid operator
ERCOT
Interconnection
Water
Closed-loop cooling per Sep 2026 open house (KFDA). Primary power Goodnight 1/2 wind; ERCOT backup.

The Texas (ERCOT) grid demand right now: 52.0 GW (EIA-930, 2026-09-27 10:00).

County water status: Exceptional drought (D4) in Armstrong County, week of 2026-09-22 (US Drought Monitor). Data centers are large water users for cooling; this is the neutral local water picture.

Why here

Project Llano sits on private land in Texas, Armstrong. It connects to the ERCOT grid, draws on mixed power. This siting summary is composed from the record's held fields, not speculation; see methodology.

Regulatory paper trail

The filings and rules on record for this site and its jurisdiction, most recent first. Each is a sourced, dated artifact you can follow to the primary document.

NHTSA Recall: Zoox Robotaxi Software Update for Heavy Smoke Visibility (26E044)operational restriction · 2026-07-15 · United States

Sources

870c7408-d9d1-4879-986a-051504df7f9d · Tracked with DEPLOY's verified-vs-claimed methodology. Every term is defined in the glossary. Announced numbers are claims, not built capacity.

Head-to-head

Project Llano vs Google Midlothian Campus →Project Llano vs Stargate Abilene →Project Llano vs Google Mesa Data Center →Project Llano vs Google / DTE 'Project Cannoli' — Van Buren Township →Project Llano vs Google Fort Wayne / New Haven Data Center →

Common questions

What is Project Llano (Crusoe / Google Goodnight Campus, Claude TX)?
Project Llano (Crusoe / Google Goodnight Campus, Claude TX) is an AI data center campus tracked on the DEPLOY registry, located in Armstrong. DEPLOY records its capacity as a dated, sourced ledger: announced gigawatts versus actually energized gigawatts, never a press-release total.
Who is building Project Llano (Crusoe / Google Goodnight Campus, Claude TX)?
Crusoe is recorded as a party to Project Llano (Crusoe / Google Goodnight Campus, Claude TX) on the DEPLOY registry. The full party list, with each role, is on the record.
Is Project Llano (Crusoe / Google Goodnight Campus, Claude TX) operating yet?
As of the most recent verification on the DEPLOY registry, Project Llano (Crusoe / Google Goodnight Campus, Claude TX) is under construction. DEPLOY tracks the lifecycle from announced through energized, so the current state reflects sourced evidence, not the original announcement.
How verified is the data on Project Llano (Crusoe / Google Goodnight Campus, Claude TX)?
A human editor has reviewed this record for the indexed registry. Every capacity figure is an append-only, dated claim resolved to the highest-evidence tier; superseded claims are kept but excluded from the current view.

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DEPLOY. (2026). Project Llano (Crusoe / Google Goodnight Campus, Claude TX): AI data center campus record. Retrieved September 27, 2026, from https://registry.deploy.report/datacenters/crusoe-google-project-llano-claude-texas

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