Meitner Energy Center

Google · Pampa · Gray and Roberts Counties

Google and its subsidiary Intersect are building four data center buildings near Pampa alongside more than 1 GW of new wind, solar and battery storage, with on-site gas for firming. Google owns both the data center and the power plant that feeds it.

Who holds each layer of the Meitner Energy Center WHO HOLDS EACH LAYER LAND AND SITE Google, Gray and Roberts counties POWER Intersect: wind, solar, storage, gas firming BUILDINGS AND OPERATIONS Google, four buildings COMPUTE Google first-party TENANT Google and Google Cloud
Planned
840 MW
Power
Co-located wind, solar, gas
Generation
1 GW+
Status
Under construction
County
Gray, Roberts
Sector
AI and data centers

Overview

Four Buildings and Up to 840 MW Beside a Gigawatt of New Generation

Google and Intersect announced Meitner on June 4, 2026, already under construction; data center work began in late 2025. The four buildings, about 60 miles northeast of Amarillo near Pampa in Gray County, will draw up to 840 MW. The generation sites spread across Gray and Roberts counties. The campus is named for Lise Meitner, the Austrian-Swedish physicist who helped explain nuclear fission.

Intersect first planned the site as a green hydrogen project with 400 MW of electrolysis, then refiled it as an 840 MW behind-the-meter data center campus. Meitner is part of Google's $40B Texas program through 2027, announced Nov 14, 2025.

Profile
OperatorGoogle
Power developerIntersect (Alphabet subsidiary)
LocationNear Pampa, Gray and Roberts counties
Distance from AustinAbout 500 mi NW
Data center loadUp to 840 MW, four buildings
GenerationMore than 1 GW wind, solar and storage, plus gas firming
CoolingAir-cooled; water for domestic use only
InvestmentAbout $14B (Industrial Info Resources estimate)
ProgramGoogle $40B Texas commitment
StatusUnder construction

Energy model

Wind, Solar and Batteries Carry Most of the Load, Gas Fills the Gaps

Meitner is co-located behind the meter (BTM): more than 1 GW of wind, solar and battery storage on site, with natural gas covering the smaller share when wind and sun fall short. Google says most of the power is clean from day one and that it pays for 100% of the power it uses. Amended interconnection agreements filed with the Public Utility Commission of Texas (PUCT) put the Meitner Wind and Meitner Solar projects in service by October 2027.

Air cooling limits water use to restrooms and other domestic uses. Rejecting heat without evaporation costs more electricity, which the on-site plant supplies. Google also funds a $10M Texas Water Impact Fund for community water projects. See Water and Cooling.

Deal structure

Alphabet Bought the Power Developer, So Google Holds Every Layer

Alphabet agreed to buy Intersect for $4.75B in cash in December 2025 and closed in March 2026. Intersect now develops generation for Google instead of selling power to it under contract. Meitner is the first campus announced on that model; the Quantum Clean Energy Project in Haskell County, 640 MW of solar and 1.3 GWh of storage beside another Google data center, is the second.

Google is the only tenant: the campus serves Google's own models and Google Cloud customers. Google does not disclose chips or which workloads run at which site. Compare Microsoft Pecos, where an oil major owns the plant, and AWS GW Ranch. See Google's Texas compute.

Intersect also runs the Caprock Workforce Hub, an 800-acre camp in Wheeler County housing up to 3,500 construction workers.

Record

Dataset Record

Sources
Google, Intersect, Industrial Info Resources, New Project Media, PPC Land, DC Pulse, NewsChannel 10 Amarillo, Data Center Dynamics
Last verified
October 2026