Google is investing $40 billion to build new data centers in Texas through 2027. Google describes the project as focused on “new cloud and AI infrastructure, including new data center campuses in Armstrong and Haskell Counties,” emphasizing their energy efficiency. The investment includes the creation of a $30 million Google-backed Energy Impact Fund, and one of the Haskell County facilities will be built housed adjacent to a new solar and battery storage plant. At a Dallas-area launch event announcing the project, Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai said the initiative will create thousands of new jobs.

Google already has two data centers near Dallas, Bloomberg reports, adding that the state has “also drawn multibillion investments from competitors such as OpenAI and Anthropic PBC.”

“Texas has become a magnet for data centers as companies chase relatively cheap energy, vast tracts of land, and a state eager to host the infrastructure that’s powering the artificial intelligence boom,” Bloomberg points out.

To help staff the new plants, Google is tapping the electrical training ALLIANCE, which Alphabet says will support the organization in a mission to “train existing electrical workers and more than 1,700 apprentices in Texas by 2030, more than doubling the projected pipeline of new electricians in the state,” the company explains in a blog post.

In his own announcement, Texas Governor Greg Abbott says “Google’s $40 billion investment makes Texas Google’s largest investment in any state in the country.”

In addition to Anthropic, whose $50 billion U.S. data center investment includes builds in Texas and New York, the Lone Star State has also attracted infrastructure investment by Meta Platforms, which is locating a gigawatt-sized campus there, and Microsoft, which has signed a five-year deal worth nearly $10 billion for Texas computing capacity.

“Google didn’t go into detail” about the design of its new Texas facilities, writes SiliconANGLE, which speculates the company will rely primarily on Nvidia chips rather than its upcoming Ironwood next-gen TPUs since the facility will use air instead of more efficient liquid cooling.