谷歌将在怀俄明州建设首个数据中心，这是一项长期投资170亿美元的项目，位于拉勒米县，公司周四表示。其大部分电力将来自天然气，并配备碳捕获技术，旨在将大部分排放阻隔在大气之外。此前一天，谷歌刚宣布了一项150亿美元的马来西亚投资计划。
Google will build its first Wyoming data centre, a $17B investment near Cheyenne. Most of its power will come from natural gas, including a 702 MW fuel cell plant from AEP and Bloom Energy, with carbon capture meant to store most emissions underground. Google will build its first data centre in Wyoming, a long-term $17B investment in Laramie County, the company said on Thursday.
主要电力来源是一座702兆瓦的燃料电池电厂，由美国电力公司（American Electric Power）提供，该技术将天然气转化为电力而无需燃烧。美国电力公司在10月表示，将斥资约40亿美元在夏延附近建设这座彭博能源（Bloom Energy）燃料电池电厂。据《电力》杂志报道，谷歌将根据一份为期20年的协议购买其电力，该电厂预计将于2028年底全面投入运行。
Much of its power will come from natural gas, with carbon capture meant to keep most of the emissions out of the air. It follows a $15B plan for Malaysia that Google announced on Wednesday. The main source is a 702 MW fuel cell plant from American Electric Power, which turns natural gas into electricity without burning it. AEP said in October it would spend about $4B on the Bloom Energy plant near Cheyenne. Google will buy its power under a 20-year deal, POWER Magazine reported, and the plant should be fully running by the end of 2028.
燃料电池产生的二氧化碳将被捕获并储存在附近塔尔格拉斯能源（Tallgrass Energy）的怀俄明州东部封存中心地下。谷歌表示，这将消除该电厂“大绝大多数”排放，但未给出具体数字。公司称这是迄今规划中同类最大的电厂。
Carbon from the fuel cells will be captured and stored underground at Tallgrass Energy’s nearby Eastern Wyoming Sequestration Hub. Google says this will remove “a large majority” of the plant’s emissions, but has not given a figure. It calls the plant the largest of its kind planned so far.
谷歌还将从塔尔格拉斯和黑山能源（Black Hills Energy）运营的燃气电厂购买电力，并正在研究能否为塔尔格拉斯的燃气轮机加装碳捕获装置。加上怀俄明州项目，谷歌与配备碳捕获技术的电厂签约电力容量已接近1吉瓦。其首笔此类交易——针对伊利诺伊州一座燃气电厂——于2025年10月达成。
Google will also buy power from gas plants run by Tallgrass and Black Hills Energy, and is studying whether carbon capture can be fitted to Tallgrass’s turbines. With Wyoming, its contracted power from plants with carbon capture reaches nearly 1 GW. Its first such deal, for a gas plant in Illinois, came in October 2025.
谷歌表示，将承担其使用的所有电力费用及其扩张所需的电网升级费用，这是美国立法者要求大型科技公司履行的责任。该数据中心将采用风冷技术以节约用水。
Google says it will pay for all the power it uses and the grid upgrades its growth requires, something US lawmakers want Big Tech to do. The data centre will be air-cooled to save water.
用水问题是夏延的一个痛点。7月，该市在一家Meta承包商向其废水再利用系统排放了一种罕见细菌后，暂停了部分数据中心的废水排放。
Water is a sore point in Cheyenne. In July, the city halted some data centre water discharges after a Meta contractor released a rare bacterium into its wastewater reuse system.
谷歌预计该项目将为该县及其学校带来数亿美元的财产税收入。谷歌及其合作伙伴还在成立一个社区委员会，此前有200多名居民对数据中心的扩张如何改变夏延市表示担忧。在美国选民在41项地方投票提案中否决了40项数据中心相关提案两天后，谷歌宣布了该项目。
Google expects the project to bring in hundreds of millions of dollars in property taxes for the county and its schools. It and its partners are also setting up a community council, after more than 200 residents raised worries about how data centre growth is changing Cheyenne. Google announced the project two days after US voters rejected data centres in 40 of 41 local ballot measures.