Google Commits $15 Billion to Build Beside Amazon in Rural Missouri
Montgomery County campus, 1 GW Ameren contract, Project Green adjacency, SB 4 power framework, air-cooled architecture
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Google committed $15 billion to a new data center campus in New Florence, Montgomery County, Missouri, in an announcement dated May 19, 2026.
Ruth Porat, Alphabet’s President and Chief Investment Officer, led the announcement at a community event.
The campus will occupy more than 900 acres and support cloud and AI workloads.
Construction has begun, and the project will be delivered over multiple years.
Site And Scale
The New Florence site sits approximately 90 minutes west of St. Louis along Interstate 70.
This investment represents the largest single technology commitment in Missouri’s history.
The campus is built directly adjacent to Amazon Web Services’ Project Green, a $35 billion, 1,000-acre campus already under construction in the same county.
The two developments together create roughly 2,000 acres of combined hyperscaler campus infrastructure in a single rural county with a population of approximately 11,000.
Google is separately developing data center infrastructure in Kansas City as part of its Missouri strategy.
Power Procurement And Grid Commitments
Google contracted more than 1 gigawatt of new generation capacity in Missouri, with an additional 500 megawatts being developed through its partnership with Ameren Corporation.
Ameren Chairman, President and CEO Martin J. Lyons Jr. confirmed the campus is the largest economic development project in Ameren Missouri’s history.
The utility holds 2.2 gigawatts in aggregate binding contracts with multiple large data center users, equivalent to the full output of its largest coal plant, the Labadie facility.
Ameren is planning a 50 percent increase in generation capacity over the next four years.
Regulatory Framework And Cooling
Under Missouri Senate Bill 4, signed by Governor Mike Kehoe in 2025, Google is required to pay 100 percent of the power costs for its operations and any new infrastructure costs directly driven by those operations.
Google, Ameren, and Evergy brought the Capacity Commitment Framework to Missouri, binding large energy users to pay for their electricity and infrastructure needs and protecting residential ratepayers.
Google committed to air-cooling technology for the campus, limiting water consumption to domestic uses such as kitchens and bathrooms.
Jobs And Community Commitments
Google will fund the Construction Laborers and Contractors Joint Training Fund to train more than 2,300 laborers, including 1,500 apprentices, over the next two years.
Google estimates each direct data center role generates approximately nine additional local jobs.
The company announced a $20 million Energy Impact Fund to reduce household utility bills in Montgomery, Clay, Platte, and surrounding counties, with the Northeast Community Action Corporation as its first recipient.
Construction will unfold over multiple years, with permanent operational roles following completion.
So, the utility is adding half its generation base in four years? Wow.