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Reported geography
Source-reported location for Google Nebraska AI Campus (proposed).
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Source row snapshot
- Operator as published
- Address and locality
- Otoe County · Nebraska
- Official metro area
- Outside an official metropolitan boundary
- Source-reported status
- proposed
- Provider facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Planned: 1,000 MW (source-reported; boundary not independently verified; MW measure not stated by provider)
- Source freshness
- 16 September 2026
- Location precision
- approximate (provider label: exact; the provider's own note describes an approximate location)
- Compute Atlas confidence label
- reported (provider's classification; not a DataCenterData check)
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-000728
Reported details
Source-reported by Compute Atlas; not independently verified by DataCenterData. Provider wording is kept; long provider notes are shortened and marked …; unknown is not zero; none of these values is totaled, ranked or compared.
- Power source
- On-site gas
- Cooling
- Not established
- Community response
- Provider label: contested
- AI-use label (provider)
- likely
- Announced
- March 2026
Provider notes
Energy. Tenaska (Omaha-based) to build and operate a privately owned combined-cycle natural gas plant; capacity potentially exceeding twice Nebraska's largest existing plant (1,365 MW Gerald Gentleman Station); carbon capture technology planned; Tallgrass Energy potentially to supply gas and transport captured CO2 (Tallgrass later denied involvement); project contingent on passage of Nebraska LB1261 permitting private generators to interconnect with public utility grids On-site generation is not stated in the cited sources. …
Water. Cooling technology not disclosed in public filings. County officials and residents have raised concerns about combined water demand from the proposed data center and its associated natural-gas power plant.
Community. Otoe County commissioners passed a one-year moratorium on new data-center permits (May 2026), with the board chair describing sentiment as '50/50'; the Gage County planning commission unanimously recommended an 18-month moratorium (June 2026) to applause. Opposition centers on water supply, power costs, land use, and limited permanent employment.
What the source record says
Exact site is unknown and undisclosed. Tenaska has optioned over 2,600 acres across Gage, Lancaster, Otoe, and Cass Counties in SE Nebraska since December 2025. Coordinates are approximate centroid of the Otoe/Gage County search area. Reported capacity range is 1,000–3,000 MW depending on phase; 1,000 MW used as minimum. Google has invested $3.5B in Nebraska since 2019 across existing Papillion, Omaha, and Lincoln data centers. Legislative feasibility depends on LB1261; could be operational by 2029 if approved.
Any MW value is reproduced as source-reported context. Its measurement boundary is not established consistently enough for comparison. Unknown is not zero.
Status history supplied by the source
- 2026-03 · source-reported proposed
Project leaked via documents from a Nebraska public power district meeting in January 2026; Flatwater Free Press and Grist reported in March 2026; Google and Tenaska declined comment; neither has officially confirmed
Sources and attribution
These sources are listed for the whole row. Unless a figure links to its own source, the provider does not mark which one gave it, so a figure may not appear in every source.
- Google proposes Nebraska data center requiring more power than all of Lincoln · Flatwater Free Press
- Google's data-center boom comes to Nebraska · Grist
- Gage County Planning and Zoning Commission recommends 18-month moratorium on data centers · Nebraska Public Media
- Otoe County commissioners pass moratorium, data center or not · 1011 Now (KOLN/KGIN)
- Google proposes Nebraska data center requiring more power than all of Lincoln · 1011 NOW (KOLN)
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.34.1, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID google-nebraska-ai-campus-proposed. Filtered to data-center records in the 50 U.S. states; selected fields normalized for search and display; DataCenterData directory IDs added. Some locations in this layer are reported by the provider as derived from OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL, https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright) and Epoch AI (CC BY 4.0).
Compute Atlas 1.34.1 with retained prior rows and publication holds. This is a DataCenterData composite, not an unmodified publisher edition. This row uses the captured source from 1.34.1, source as of 2026-10-14T20:40:52.293Z.
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Recorded information
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Licensed directory listing dcd-dir-000728
Licensed directory row.
Provider notes and the source narrative are printed on this page and are not repeated here.
Identity and relationships
- Provider facility type: data center
Provider facility type.
- AI-use label (provider): likely
Compute Atlas classification, not a DataCenterData finding.
Location and precision
- NE · Otoe (Approximate location)
Roles
- Operator: Google
Operator label as published by the provider; no parent company is inferred.
Lifecycle
- Source-stated status: source-reported proposed
Provider status label; not a DataCenterData finding that the facility is operating.
- Announced: March 2026
Provider-reported announcement date.
- Status history: 2026-03 · source-reported proposed
Status history supplied by the source.
Power capacity
- Reported capacity: Planned: 1,000 MW (source-reported; boundary not independently verified; MW measure not stated by provider)
Reproduced as the page prints it; not ranked or totaled; unknown is not zero.
- Power source: On-site gas
Provider label.
Cooling, water, PUE and WUE
- Cooling: Not established
The provider reports water information but no cooling type.
Permits, incentives, jobs and proceedings
- Community response: Provider label: contested
Compute Atlas characterization, not a DataCenterData assessment.
Sources, dates, limitations and corrections
- Provider update date: 2026-09-16
Provider update date is not a DataCenterData verification date.
Not yet recorded here: Area, acreage and buildings · Connectivity · Services · Certifications and design ratings · Rack density · Availability · Specification links and contact.
Licensed values: adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak under CC BY 4.0. Source-reported and not independently verified.
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