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Google Armstrong County (Meitner Energy Center)

Wayside, Armstrong County County, TX

Source: Primary source

Google Armstrong County (Meitner Energy Center) is a under construction data center in Armstrong County County, TX, operated by Google LLC. DataCentersExposed has documented 1,000 MW of reported power capacity at this site.

Reporting by · Updated Jun 18, 2026

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Real parent
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Operator
Google LLC
Power
1,000 MW
Attribution & capacity confidence:mediumprimary source

Overview

source: link

1GW+ co-located DC + on-site generation w/ Intersect Power; construction Jun 2026.

Operator chain

  • Files as
    Google LLC
  • This facility
    Google Armstrong County (Meitner Energy Center)

Grid & water — why here

source: HIFLD · EPA
Nearest substation
5.0 mi
Unknown306583 · 69 kV
Transmission line
5.0 mi
69 kV line
Municipal water
No service area
self-supplied or unmapped

The closest existing grid infrastructure and the municipal water system this location sits in — the same constraints the buildout model screens on (it won't site a campus more than ~2 km from a substation or ~5 km from municipal water). Distances are straight-line to public HIFLD/EPA features, not a metered connection.

In the news

source: GDELT

Tax breaks & subsidies

source: Good Jobs First / GASB 77

These tax breaks are recorded to the operator (the operator/parent) and may cover this or other sites — no state names the recipient at the facility level.

Total to this operator: $31.7M
  • Texas Qualifying Large Data Center Project ExemptionTax break$0
    State of Texas · granted 2026 · term — yr · source
  • Texas Qualifying Data Center ExemptionTax break$0
    State of Texas · granted 2025 · term — yr · source
  • Texas Qualifying Large Data Center Project ExemptionTax break$0
    State of Texas · granted 2025 · term — yr · source
  • Chapter 312 — Midlothian Technology Reinvestment Zone No. 14 (City of Midlothian data-center zone)Tax break$16,044,286
    Ellis County, TX · granted 2024 · term — yr · source
  • Chapter 312 — Midlothian Technology Reinvestment Zone No. 14 (City of Midlothian data-center zone)Tax break$15,660,346
    Ellis County, TX · granted 2024 · term — yr · source
Statewide cost of this incentive

Texas reported $16.1M in Property used in certain large data center projects; temporary exemption (Texas Tax Code § 151.3595) for FY2025 (Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts). Program-wide, not attributable to this site.

source · All Texas subsidies →

Water use

No public record of this facility's water use. We check state withdrawal reporting for self-supplied sites; municipally supplied sites only become visible through a public-records request to the local water utility — a per-facility request tool is coming. If you have a utility document for this site, send it to us.

EPA permits & violations

source: EPA ECHO

No reported violations as of last sync.

Nearest school

source: HIFLD / NCES

The nearest public school, Happy H S in Happy, is 18.1 mi from this site (131 students).

Schools are sensitive receptors for the noise, backup-generator exhaust, and traffic a large data center brings. Straight-line distance to the nearest public school (HIFLD/NCES, US public schools only).

Hearings timeline

No public-hearing records linked to this site yet. We surface planning-commission and board-of-supervisors dates when a record names a facility. If you know of a hearing on this site, tell us.

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