Search engine giant Google is adding to its data center capacity with a new facility at its sprawling campus in North Texas.
The Mountain View, California-based company expects to invest at least $880 million into building a one-story, 288,000-square-foot facility at 3441 Railport Parkway in Midlothian, Texas, according to a state work permit filed this week.
Work on the project almost 30 miles southwest of downtown Dallas is expected to begin in January, the permit said. State work permits are often preliminary and subject to change.
The filing comes less than a month after Google unveiled plans to invest $40 billion in Texas on data center development, including three new data center campuses, as reported by CoStar News. The company plans to also invest in the state’s power grid, training programs and agriculture industry to offset, in part, any negative impacts of its data center expansion in the Lone Star State.
Google did not immediately respond to an emailed media request from CoStar News about the state work permit outlining plans to expand in Midlothian. In announcing its early plans for data center expansion in Texas, Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai said the projects would “power the new era of AI innovation.”
The Midlothian expansion is called Building 5 in the state work permit and adds to Google’s existing data center campus. The additional investment in Texas comes amid fierce competition by tech giants and real estate investors seeking to acquire land and power to build the infrastructure needed to support the AI boom and machine learning.
Compared with traditional cloud computing, AI and machine learning has higher power and water requirements. And AI is expected to drive a 165% increase in data center demand by 2030, Goldman Sachs said in a recent forecast. The explosion of interest in AI has resulted in an “arms race” to develop the technology, the firm said.
Work on Google’s latest data center facility in North Texas could be completed by the end of February 2027.