Google Midlothian Data Center Building — TX · Ask the Grid

Overview

Exact-site power: 51.09 MW; Critical IT Load · Reported
Status: Operating; Operating Google Midlothian campus with five identified buildings/phases; Buildings 1–4 are documented as completed, closed, or inspection-complete, while Building 5 is registered and under construction as of July 27, 2026.
Campus size: 1,288,600 sq ft; 5 reported buildings · Parent campus
Project cost: $500.0M; Estimated construction cost in the cited project filing.
Compute profile: Hyperscale · Cloud

Project scope: Google's Midlothian campus comprises five identified buildings. Building 1 began construction in June 2019; Building 2 was fitted out in 2020; Building 3 was permitted for construction beginning July 2019 and has an inspection-complete record; Building 4 was scheduled for construction from April 2024 through December 2025; and Building 5 began construction on January 28, 2026, with a permit completion date of February 24, 2027.
Power and grid: Reported IT load associated with the Google Midlothian facility; this is separate from the reported 85.15 MW power-capacity figure.
Compute role: Operating Google data-center building at the Google Midlothian campus. Public evidence identifies the facility and its operating company, but does not disclose building-specific compute configuration or operating details.
Cooling and environment: Google aims to replenish more freshwater than it consumes, on average, across its data centers and offices by 2030; no Midlothian-building-specific implementation or quantity was identified.
Local reporting: Reports that Google was behind the Sharka data-center project at RailPort Business Park in Midlothian, including the projected job count and tax abatements.

Google Midlothian Building 1

Original Google Midlothian data-center facility. Quiddity describes a 260,000-square-foot facility on a 375-acre tract and says the site broke ground in June 2019. Google identifies 2019 as the year it invested in its first Texas data center in Midlothian.

Sharka Data Center Building 2

Second campus building. A TDLR record identifies the project as Sharka Data Center Building 2, a 3,113-square-foot Level 1 fit-up of an existing shelled space, with a January 1, 2020 start date and August 1, 2020 completion date. A data-center directory separately describes the underlying second building as a 282,000-square-foot, two-story facility, formerly a Toys R Us distribution warehouse.

MDN Sharka Data Center - Building 3

MDN Sharka Data Center - Building 3. The TDLR record describes a new one-story data center of approximately 288,000 square feet, with a July 1, 2019 start date and a March 31, 2027 permit completion date; the print record reports Current Status: Inspection Complete. The permit completion date is retained separately from commercial operation, for which no explicit date was found.

Sharka Data Center - Building 4

Sharka Data Center - Building 4. TDLR lists a one-story data center with associated central utility buildings, 170,600 square feet, an April 1, 2024 start date, a December 31, 2025 completion date, and Current Status: Project Closed. The March 2024 announcement described the same planned facility and schedule.

Sharka Data Center - Building 5

Sharka Data Center - Building 5. The official TDLR record lists registration on December 8, 2025, construction beginning January 28, 2026, permit completion on February 24, 2027, a new one-story 288,000-square-foot data center, and Current Status: Project Registered. No separate commercial-operation date was found.

Power and grid

Capacity	Basis	Status	Scope	As of
85.15 MW	Utility Service	Operating	Exact Asset	—
Reported power capacity for the Google Midlothian facility at 3441 Railport Parkway; the source labels the facility operational, while a related public-record entry labels the project proposed.
51.09 MW	Critical IT Load	Reported	Exact Asset	—
Reported IT load associated with the Google Midlothian facility; this is separate from the reported 85.15 MW power-capacity figure.

Utility: HILCO Electric Cooperative, Inc.
Balancing authority: ERCOT
ISO / RTO: ERCOT
Power sources: HILCO Electric Cooperative, Inc. power grid

Facility and development

Gross floor area (sq ft): 1,288,600
Site area (acres): 540
Buildings: 5
Construction: Google's Midlothian campus comprises five identified buildings. Building 1 began construction in June 2019; Building 2 was fitted out in 2020; Building 3 was permitted for construction beginning July 2019 and has an inspection-complete record; Building 4 was scheduled for construction from April 2024 through December 2025; and Building 5 began construction on January 28, 2026, with a permit completion date of February 24, 2027. The campus therefore combines operating/completed facilities with Building 5 under construction. No commercial-operation dates were found for individual phases.
Land transaction: Google acquired an initial 375-acre tract in Midlothian's Railport Business Park and later acquired an additional 165-acre tract, for 540 acres of reported land holdings associated with the campus. The initial land was acquired under Sharka LLC, and Ellis County approved a 10-year tax-abatement agreement in July 2018.
Facility class: Hyperscale · Cloud
Operating context: Operating Google data-center building at the Google Midlothian campus. Public evidence identifies the facility and its operating company, but does not disclose building-specific compute configuration or operating details.
Environmental commitments: Google aims to replenish more freshwater than it consumes, on average, across its data centers and offices by 2030; no Midlothian-building-specific implementation or quantity was identified. · Google states that it reports annual water use for its data-center locations and replenishment projects; no reported value for this exact Midlothian building was identified.
Project cost (USD): 500,000,000
Land cost (USD): 0
Incentives (USD): 0
Tax abatements: City of Midlothian: 100% personal-property tax abatement and 85% improvement-tax abatement for 10 years under the Sharka LLC agreement.
Utility agreements: Quiddity coordinated with public utility companies for necessary construction adjustments, but no executed site-specific electric, water, sewer, or interconnection agreement was publicly identified.
Power purchase agreements: Google–SB Energy agreement covering approximately 942 MW from four Texas solar projects; the agreement supports Google's Midlothian data-center consumption and Dallas cloud region, but does not disclose an allocation to this individual building.
Permits and dockets: Modification of an existing USACE Section 404 individual permit for site drainage improvements. · FEMA CLOMR/LOMR documentation for drainage channels. · City of Midlothian building permits and inspections administered through the city's MyGov permitting system; no exact permit number was located.
Transactions: Google acquired approximately 375 acres in Midlothian's RailPort Business Park for the original data-center project; Jet Stream, LLC was identified as the prior landowner. · Sharka LLC was used as the Google-associated project entity for tax-abatement and site-plan arrangements.
Public hearings: On January 13, 2026, the Midlothian City Council held a public-hearing item concerning Lots 1-A and 1-B, Block 1, Sharka MDN Addition, in Planned Development District No. 106. The property was described as being at the southwest corner of Railport Parkway and US Highway 67; the item concerned development regulations and a Unified Sign Agreement. · The city-council record shows discussion and approval of the unified-sign request for the Sharka facility. The record does not establish that the matter concerned only the exact mapped building.
Community benefits: The Sharka/Midlothian project was reported as a $500 million development with a commitment to create at least 40 full-time jobs. · Local officials said the development would support local businesses and schools; broader Google and local-leader statements associated the Midlothian investment with hundreds of full-time jobs, although no final count for the exact mapped building was reported. · Midlothian approved a 100% personal-property-tax abatement and an 85% improvement-tax abatement for 10 years. These are development incentives, not evidence of a quantified net community benefit.
Petitions: No petition specifically targeting the Google Midlothian Railport Parkway site was identified. The petition sources reviewed concerned general national data-center activity or an unrelated Granbury campaign.
Opposition or litigation: Reported local criticism concerned the secrecy of the Midlothian negotiations, confidentiality agreements, tax incentives, and the relatively small number of promised jobs compared with the investment. · No petition or organized opposition campaign specifically tied to the exact mapped building was identified. · No litigation specifically against the Google Midlothian site was identified. The lawsuit mentioned in the reporting concerned separate Google negotiations in San Jose and was not attributed to Midlothian.

Identity and campus: Google Midlothian campus
Also reported as Google, Google Midlothian.
Regulatory record: The Google Midlothian data-center building is operated by Google and is part of the Midlothian campus in Ellis County. Public records identify a City of Midlothian tax-abatement agreement, city construction permitting and inspections, civil and drainage work coordinated with public utilities, modification of an existing USACE Section 404 individual permit, and FEMA CLOMR/LOMR work. No building-specific utility supply agreement, interconnection agreement, financing arrangement, or separate docket was identified.

Google Midlothian Data Center Building