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NE · Otoe County · 40.474°N 96.371°W
Straight-line distances. Nearest named waterway via the USGS National Hydrography Dataset; nearest transmission line via HIFLD. Baseline water stress and groundwater trend describe the surrounding hydrological basin (WRI Aqueduct 4.0, CC BY 4.0) — not this facility’s measured water use. Principal-aquifer system underlying the location (USGS, mapped at 1:2,500,000 — regional context, not site hydrogeology).
Privately built plant intended to serve the proposed Google campus, with excess sold back to the local public power district. Timeline: online as soon as 2029.
Combined-cycle natural gas with planned carbon capture. Would interconnect to a Nebraska public power district grid and sell excess power back, contingent on LB1261.
Otoe County commissioners voted to suspend permits for new data centers for up to one year (May 2026) to study impacts and update regulations; the Gage County planning commission separately recommended an 18-month moratorium. Roughly 70 people attended a late-April 2026 community meeting about the potential plant. State Sen. Myron Dorn of Gage County signed a land option with Tenaska for about 80 acres and later filed a conflict-of-interest disclosure.
A Nebraska county just banned new data centers for up to a year — Otoe County moratorium; Tenaska option acreage by county: Gage 1,509; Otoe 1,454; Cass 1,123; Lancaster ~680Reported March 2026 from documents surfaced at a January 2026 Nebraska public power district meeting; Google, Tenaska and Tallgrass Energy all declined to confirm.
Google proposes Nebraska data center requiring more power than all of Lincoln — privately built natural gas plant with carbon capture, 1,000-3,000 MW, developer Tenaska, online as soon as 2029Confirmed: data verified against official filings, permits, or direct operator announcements.
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