Google, the company expanding its data centers in Oklahoma, is apparently going to do the same in Nebraska and it’s apparently part of the company’s effort to do the same across the country.
It reportedly wants to build a large data center in Nebraska, one that would require more than three times the amount of power used in the summer by the city of Lincoln.
As reported by Flatwater Free Press, the Google data center would be the largest in the state but would power it through a privately build utility-scale natural gas plant. The Free Press said the plant would potentially be capable of producing more power than the largest power plant in the state. And it would use carbon capture technology to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Documents obtained by the Free Press indicated three companies were named in the project including Tenaska, an Omaha-based company with at least one major operation in Oklahoma, the Tenaska Kiamichi generating plant at Kiowa in Pittsburgh County. Another of the firms would be carbon dioxide pipeline company Tallgrass Energy, a firm headquartered in Kansas City.
Google hopes to have the project online in 2029. The company already committed $9 billion toward expansion of data centers in Oklahoma and more than $400 billion of projects in Texas.
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