Crusoe confirms Google will occupy its wind-farm data center campus near Amarillo

"At the request of our customer" was all Crusoe offered in June when it stopped work on Project Tembo, the 2.7GW campus near Cheyenne, Wyoming, that it had been developing with Google ^[11]. That customer is now the end user at Goodnight ^[1]. According to DCD, the reports that Google's own subsidiary took Tembo over had drawn no public comment from the company ^[12].

Crusoe describes Goodnight as an energy story. "Crusoe's strategy is to build AI factories directly at the source of abundant, low-cost energy," Chase Lochmiller, Crusoe's chief executive and co-founder, said ^[3]. "The Armstrong County campus is a prime example of this energy-first strategy. We're bringing new, affordable clean energy online. We broke ground in June 2025 and are building at the same swift pace we set in Abilene." ^[4]

On the published record, that new clean energy is a direct line to a neighbour's turbines. The campus connects to two adjacent wind farms owned by Serena. Goodnight 1 is operating and Goodnight 2 is still under construction ^[5]. Together they are rated at 531MW ^[1]. Aterio Research puts the first phase of the campus at 530MW and the second at 500MW ^[8]. At full output, then, the wind farms roughly match phase one, and the full build is about 499MW larger than their combined peak ^[2]. DCD reports that surplus wind will go into the grid when the farms produce more than the campus needs ^[6]. The report does not say where the campus gets power when they produce less.

Crusoe was not relying on OpenAI alone before this deal. Microsoft's planned lease at Abilene already put a second large tenant on that campus ^[13]. On the cloud side, Thinking Machines signed a $65 million annual agreement for managed inference, taking that service past $100 million in ARR ^[15], and Perplexity signed for an undisclosed sum ^[16]. Goodnight is new in a different way: a hyperscaler is the end user of an entire campus built at a power source, and it sits in a county Google had already named in its own Texas plan ^[10]. Aterio expects $29 billion to go into the project ^[9].

In Wyoming, the customer asked the developer to stop and, according to reports, carried on through its own subsidiary ^[11][12]. For an infrastructure lead deciding how much of a capacity plan to put on a developer like Crusoe, the deals sort on whether the developer owns the power or holds a connection to someone else's, and on whether the tenant could build the same site itself. A developer that owns its power, at a site the tenant cannot copy, is hard to replace. A developer wired to a third party's generation, serving a tenant with its own construction arm, keeps the work only while it builds faster. The Tembo reports describe what happens after that. Goodnight sits in the second box on the evidence published so far: the turbines are Serena's ^[5], and Google has a subsidiary reported to be building a site Crusoe started ^[12]. Crusoe is competing on pace. It has been developing Goodnight since June 2025 and filed for two more buildings in July ^[7].