Google has filed plans to build two data centers in Vernon, Wilbarger County, Texas, with each facility carrying a USD 500 million price tag, bringing the combined investment to USD 1 billion in a region that has not previously been considered a significant data center hub.

Two Identical Facilities Filed Under Shell Entities

The projects, named Project Rise 1A and Project Rise 2A, were filed separately through two limited liability companies: Planton Investments LLC and Platon Investments LLC.

Both entities list 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, California, as their address, which is the location of Google's Googleplex campus, linking the filings directly to the technology company.

The applications were submitted to the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation. Each project is slated for the same location on FM 2897 S in Vernon, and both share an identical footprint of 991,000 square feet, or approximately 92,065 square meters, of floor space.

Construction on Project Rise 1A began on March 31, 2026, with both projects sharing the same construction timeline and a scheduled completion date at the end of March 2028.

The scope of work for each facility is described in the filings as a "new data center with associated mechanical and electrical yards, fire lanes, security entrance, and utilities."

Clean Energy Tie-In Announced Earlier This Year

The Vernon projects are not entirely without prior context. In February 2026, Google announced it would be developing a data center in Wilbarger County that would be colocated to take advantage of on-site clean energy from US energy firm AES.

The new filings represent the formal regulatory documentation for what appears to be that previously announced development.

The pairing of large-scale compute infrastructure with dedicated on-site clean energy generation has become an increasingly prominent strategy among hyperscalers looking to meet both capacity demands and sustainability commitments.

Part of a Sweeping Texas Expansion

The Vernon projects are the latest addition to a rapidly expanding Google footprint across Texas.

The company already operates data center campuses in Midlothian and Red Oak, and recently Google linked a housebound group to file for USD 800 million in data centers in Haskell, Texas.

In June 2026, Google commenced construction of a data center at the Meitner Energy Center, spanning Gray and Roberts Counties in the state.

The pace of expansion is underpinned by a major financial commitment Google made last November, when the company announced it would invest USD 40 billion in Texas through 2027.

Vernon Sits Outside Traditional Texas Data Center Clusters

Wilbarger County occupies a stretch of North Texas situated between Amarillo and Wichita Falls. It does not currently qualify as an established data center market.

The bulk of Texas's data center activity is concentrated around the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex, as well as Austin, Houston, and San Antonio, regions with well-developed power infrastructure, fiber connectivity, and existing operator ecosystems.

The decision to place nearly USD 1 billion worth of infrastructure in a non-traditional location is consistent with a broader industry trend in which hyperscalers are increasingly venturing beyond saturated markets into less conventional geographies, often driven by the availability of land, power, or, in this case, co-located renewable energy generation.

Scale of the Vernon Build

With each of the two facilities measuring just under one million square feet, the combined Project Rise development would total approximately 1.98 million square feet of data center floor space in Vernon alone.

That scale positions the dual-campus build among the larger hyperscale developments underway in Texas, a state that has become one of the most active markets for large-scale digital infrastructure investment in the United States.

The two-year construction window running from early 2026 through March 2028 suggests Google is targeting operational capacity from the Vernon site within the current investment cycle it has publicly committed to in the state.