Google Papillion
Papillion, Sarpy County, Nebraska
Approximate area
Someone has proposed it. Nothing has been approved and nothing is being built.
Status inferred from agw source doc (Sep 8, 2026). No filing states it in as many words.
- Status
- Proposed (inferred)
- Owner
- Likely Google
- Capacity
- 237 MW
- Location known to
- Approximate area
- County
- Sarpy County
- State
- Nebraska
- Electric utility
- Omaha Public Power District
- Grid operator
- SPP
Location and nearby
Google Papillion is on record as proposed in Sarpy County, Nebraska. A record puts its capacity at 237 MW. 62 other campuses are on record within 25 miles, 8 of them within 5 miles. The nearest is 0.98 mi away, measured between approximate points.
Nearest of each kind: Operating 1.1 mi Under construction 1.7 mi Permitted 0.98 mi Proposed 2.2 mi
Nearest campuses on record
- 0.98 mi approximate
Permitted · Sarpy County, NE
- 1.1 mi approximate
Tierpoint Omaha - Midlands Data Center
Operating · Sarpy County, NE
- 1.3 mi approximate
Permitted · Sarpy County, NE
- 1.7 mi approximate
Under construction · Sarpy County, NE
- 2.2 mi approximate
Google data center, Papillion, Nebraska
Proposed · Sarpy County, NE
- 2.5 mi approximate
Permitted · Sarpy County, NE
What is on record
Owner
Likely Google
A tracker names this operator and cites a source we have not read ourselves, so it is not traced to a record.
What the signal was
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cited document names the operator
google
Source cited by AI GridWatch for Google Papillion: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nONzuLnpMPST0bOINDKXmSZ0ANlynYY0/view?usp=sharing · Aug 14, 2026
Filed by: Google
Sources name more than one company here: Google, Meta. That usually means a building with tenants. No source we hold says which is the landlord, so we do not guess.
- Capacity
- 237 MW from agw
- Diesel generators
- No air permit found in the records we collect
- Water
- Not collected. State water withdrawal permits are not in this build.
- Electric utility
- Omaha Public Power District
- Also recorded as
- Facebook USA, Inc. · Google · Meta Papillion · Meta Platforms, Inc.
How the status changed
- Operating Jun 14, 2026 inferred
DCE status 'mapped' (located only, single source)
- Proposed Aug 14, 2026 inferred
AI GridWatch stage/outcome: under construction|; source press
About this data
Evidence
Primary record
A government filing, a federal permit, an assessor parcel or the operator’s own page.
Location known to
Approximate area
Approximate. Good enough for a neighbourhood, not for a driveway.
Independent sources
2
cited filing, directory. Directories count once between them, because they copy each other.
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Where this comes from
3 source records back this page. Each row is a document we retrieved and kept, so a claim can be checked against the original.
| Document | Role | Row | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Source cited by AI GridWatch for Google Papillion: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nONzuLnpMPST0bOINDKXmSZ0ANlynYY0/view?usp=sharing US-NE | Context | url=https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nONzuLnpMPST0bOINDKXmSZ0ANlynYY0/view?usp=sharing | Aug 14, 2026 retrieved by us |
| agw_projects tracker export (AI GridWatch (aigridwatch.com), CC BY 4.0.) US | Context | id=google-papillion | Aug 14, 2026 last changed on the server |
| dce tracker export (© DataCentersExposed contributors, datacentersexposed.com, ODbL 1.0. Contains data © OpenStreetMap contributors.) US | Primary | slug=meta-papillion | Jun 14, 2026 last changed on the server |
AI GridWatch (aigridwatch.com), CC BY 4.0. © DataCentersExposed contributors, datacentersexposed.com, ODbL 1.0. Contains data © OpenStreetMap contributors.
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