Crux AI, the Google and Blackstone-backed TPU venture, hired Meta's data center construction chief as it targets 500MW by 2027.
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Google at a glance
- Coverage
- 7 stories, July 2026 to September 2026
- Markets
- National (5), South Florida (1), San Francisco Bay Area (1)
- Story mix
- Capital & Deals (5), Development (2)
- Projects
- Lake Mariner, Cape Station, Alphabet 2026 data center capex, 1450 Brickell Avenue
- Named alongside
- Blackstone, Crux AI, TeraWulf, Fluidstack
TeraWulf's CEO controls the LLC that leases land to his own public company's $3.2B Lake Mariner AI campus, backstopped by Google.
Google signed a 396 MW geothermal PPA with Fervo Energy's Cape Station in Utah, with an option to expand to nearly 1 GW by 2030 for a data center.
The dominant development story of the cycle is a spending curve, and even a booming cloud business could not keep the market from flinching.
One lease is a tech company taking more space. A lease plus $239 million of founder real estate is a relocation with a balance sheet behind it.
Power gets built first and the load follows. Mississippi County, Arkansas is the clearest example yet of generation-led site selection.
Google keeps shedding Bay Area office space, and this time a hockey team is the buyer.