Google Red Oak
Red Oak, Ellis County, Texas
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
- 77 MW
- Location known to
- Approximate area
- County
- Ellis County
- State
- Texas
- Electric utility
- Not identified
- Grid operator
- ERCOT
Location and nearby
Google Red Oak is on record as proposed in Ellis County, Texas. A record puts its capacity at 77 MW. 65 other campuses are on record within 25 miles, 11 of them within 5 miles. The nearest is 0.7 mi away, measured between approximate points.
Nearest of each kind: Operating 0.7 mi Under construction 9.1 mi Permitted 0.82 mi Proposed 1.2 mi
Nearest campuses on record
- 0.7 mi approximate
Operating · Ellis County, TX
- 0.82 mi approximate
Permitted · Ellis County, TX
- 1.2 mi approximate
Proposed · Ellis County, TX
- 1.3 mi approximate
Compass Red Oak (800-acre campus)
Proposed · Ellis County, TX
- 1.4 mi approximate
Operating · Ellis County, TX
- 1.6 mi approximate
Operating · Ellis County, TX
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 Red Oak: https://www.mysanantonio.com/business/article/google-texas-data-center-21236627.php · Aug 14, 2026
Filed by: Google
Sources name more than one company here: Compass Datacenters, Google. That usually means a building with tenants. No source we hold says which is the landlord, so we do not guess.
- Capacity
- 77 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
- More than one utility serves this county, and no filing we hold names which one
- Also recorded as
- Compass Datacenters · Compass Datacenters Red Oak campus · Google
How the status changed
- Proposed Aug 14, 2026 inferred
AI GridWatch stage/outcome: operating|; source press
- Permitted Aug 14, 2026 inferred
AI GridWatch stage/outcome: approved|approved; 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
1
cited filing, tracker lead. Directories count once between them, because they copy each other.
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Where this comes from
4 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 Red Oak: https://www.mysanantonio.com/business/article/google-texas-data-center-21236627.php US-TX | Context | url=https://www.mysanantonio.com/business/article/google-texas-data-center-21236627.php | Aug 14, 2026 retrieved by us |
| agw_projects tracker export (AI GridWatch (aigridwatch.com), CC BY 4.0.) US | Context | id=google-red-oak | Aug 14, 2026 last changed on the server |
| Source cited by AI GridWatch for Compass Datacenters Red Oak campus: https://www.dallasobserver.com/news/red-oak-data-center-meets-community-resistance-40674118/ US-TX | Context | url=https://www.dallasobserver.com/news/red-oak-data-center-meets-community-resistance-40674118/ | Aug 14, 2026 retrieved by us |
| agw_projects tracker export (AI GridWatch (aigridwatch.com), CC BY 4.0.) US | Context | id=red-oak-compass-campus | Aug 14, 2026 last changed on the server |
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