Comprehensive Survey of Data Center and Dedicated Power Generation Infrastructure in Haskell County, Texas
Google's three-campus 'power-first' build-out, a nuclear microreactor park, and the CREZ transmission hub behind them

Haskell County's legacy as a CREZ transmission junction (multiple 345kV lines converging on some of the continent's cheapest wind and solar) has made it a primary node of Google's $40B Texas program. Three Homebound/Ascendant special-purpose entities are building the Thelma, Journey, and Ranger campuses (Thelma and Journey now under active construction, paired with Alphabet's newly-acquired Intersect Power 640 MW/1.3 GWh Quantum solar-and-battery park); a separate, unrelated Last Energy nuclear microreactor park proposes 600 MW of behind-the-meter baseload for regional data centers. A thinly-sourced CTS Lonestar project rounds out the county's pipeline but lacks enough disclosed detail to track as a full record.

A CREZ transmission hub becomes a Google county

Haskell County's rise from quiet agricultural county to hyperscale AI hub rests on infrastructure laid down over a decade ago: the Competitive Renewable Energy Zones (CREZ) transmission build-out, completed in 2013, left the county at a junction of multiple high-voltage 345kV lines with some of North America's cheapest wind and solar resources. A long run of utility-scale wind, solar, and battery-storage tax abatements (Horse Creek Wind, Azure Sky, Inertia Wind, King Creek Wind, Quantum BESS — May 2015 through Nov 2024) built the generation base that Google's 'power-first' co-location model now taps directly. Alphabet's Nov 14, 2025 announcement of a historic $40B statewide investment named two of the county's three Google campuses; the third (Ranger) followed with its own tax abatement in April 2026. This report identifies five distinct digital-infrastructure/power-generation assets in the county; four are converted into tracker projects here (Thelma, Journey, Ranger, Last Energy), and a fifth (CTS Lonestar) is held as report-only context pending firmer disclosure.

Project comparison

ProjectDeveloperStatusTotal powerAcresEst. costConstruction startTarget completion
Google Thelma CampusHomebound Group LLCUnder construction~440 MW (est.)Not disclosed (~1.4M sq ft at buildout)~$1.0B Phase 1Jun 18, 2025 (THM1A)Mar 15, 2028 (THM2A)
Google Journey CampusHomebound Group LLCUnder construction~440 MW (proj.)~300 acres$800M (buildings)Apr 1, 2026 (JNR1A)Late Oct 2027 (JNR2A)
Google Ranger CampusAscendant Site Solutions LLCPlanned / pre-constructionNot disclosed~661 acres>$1.0BNot disclosedNot disclosed
Last Energy PWR-20 Microreactor ParkLast Energy Inc.Planned / pre-licensing600 MW (onsite generation)~200 acresNot disclosedNot disclosedNot disclosed
Southeastern Haskell County DC (CTS Lonestar)CTS Lonestar LLCPlanned / pre-construction (vendor procurement)Not disclosedNot disclosedNot disclosedNot disclosedNot disclosed

Together, the report frames these as spanning thousands of acres and exceeding $3.5B in combined Phase 1 capital investment — a figure this tracker treats as the source's own estimate, not independently re-derived.

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