Daily Update, 8 November 2026: Crusoe says Google has acquired its Wyoming data-centre site, as Google announces a $17bn investment in Wyoming

Crusoe said on Friday 6 November 2026 that "its site in southeast Wyoming has been acquired by Google", a day after Google announced "our first data center in the state of Wyoming" and described it as "a long-term, $17 billion investment". It is a quiet weekend, so the two shorter items below were both announced on 6 November rather than today: Meta has added "spaces" to its Muse app, and AWS says SageMaker endpoints can now split one NVIDIA GPU into isolated partitions.

Crusoe: Google has acquired its Wyoming site

Crusoe's release, datelined Denver, 6 November, is headlined "Crusoe Announces Wyoming Data Center Campus Update". Its key line: "Crusoe, the AI factory company, today announced its site in southeast Wyoming has been acquired by Google."

• What Crusoe says it did. "The transaction marks the completion of Crusoe's engagement in pre-development work on the Wyoming project – which included data center site selection, governmental approvals, and power strategy."
• Where the project stands. Chase Lochmiller, Crusoe's co-founder and CEO, says Crusoe's "pre-construction efforts – origination, entitlement, and de-risking – have set up the Wyoming project for construction and eventual operation".
• The money. The release does not give a price or any other financial terms for the sale.
• Power. Crusoe says it started the campus with Tallgrass Energy, and describes a "hybrid power strategy" "combining fuel cells, grid power, and natural gas turbines with a long-term roadmap for carbon capture via Tallgrass’s regional CO2 sequestration hub."
• Crusoe's own figures. Lochmiller: "With more than 6 GW contracted and over 40 GW in our pipeline, we are eager to steward the development and energization of the foundational infrastructure of AI."

The release also says Crusoe "recently announced it is the developer of Google’s data center campus under construction in Armstrong County outside of Amarillo".

Google: a $17bn first data centre in Wyoming

Google's post, dated 5 November and written by Steve Walter, its VP of Global Infrastructure and Energy, says: "We’re building our first data center in Wyoming, representing a $17 billion investment in the Cowboy State." It names its partners as "Tallgrass Energy, Black Hills Energy, American Electric Power (AEP), and Related Digital", and writes of benefits for Laramie County families and of investment in Cheyenne. Google's post does not mention Crusoe.

• Fuel cells with carbon capture. Google says the project "is contracted with AEP to feature a first-of-its-kind, commercial-scale, 702 MW fuel cell development with carbon capture and storage (CCS) — the largest planned development of its kind to date." It says the fuel cells "will be made in America by Bloom Energy" and run on natural gas.
• Other power. Google says it is "also sourcing power from gas generators operated by Tallgrass Energy and Black Hills Energy", and is running an engineering study "to evaluate fitting Tallgrass’s combined cycle turbines with CCS technology."
• Bills and water. "We will pay for 100% of the power we use", Google says, and the data centre "will be air-cooled to minimize strain on local water resources."
• Local money. "We expect this project to generate hundreds of millions of dollars in local property taxes for Laramie County and School District 1", Google says. It also says it and its partners are setting up a Community Council with Bloom Energy.

On our reading, the two posts describe the same project: Crusoe says Google acquired its southeast Wyoming site, and both companies name Tallgrass Energy as a power partner. Neither post states the link in so many words.

We covered Crusoe's fundraising on 18 September: Crusoe announced the initial closing of an anticipated $3.9bn Series F, at what it called a $30.9 billion post-money valuation.

Meta adds "spaces" to the Muse app

Meta said on 6 November: "Today, we’re introducing spaces, an interactive way to build a more personalized Muse." It describes a space as "a custom experience you create inside Muse by describing your idea, like a holiday gift tracker, a daily word game, or a planning board for your next DIY project." Meta says users can keep changing a space with Muse after it is built, pin it to the sidebar or main tabs, and schedule when it appears. "Connect the apps you use, and your spaces keep themselves up to date in the background", the post says. Meta says "spaces are available everywhere Muse is available", and that it is "exploring ways for you to share your spaces with others".

AWS: GPU partitioning for SageMaker endpoints

An AWS Machine Learning blog post dated 6 November says: "Today, Amazon SageMaker Inference supports GPU partitioning, which uses NVIDIA Multi-Instance GPU (MIG) to divide a physical GPU into independent partitions." Each partition, AWS says, gets "a fixed share of the GPU’s compute units and a dedicated block of its memory, with isolation enforced in hardware", so several models can share one GPU.

• Limits. It works only on real-time endpoints that use inference components; AWS says "Single-model endpoints, serverless endpoints, and heterogeneous instance pools cannot be partitioned", and async workloads are out of scope. A partition count "never exceeds seven" per GPU, and the layout is chosen when the endpoint is created.
• Where. P4d, P5, G7 and G7e instance families, in seven AWS Regions. The two European ones listed are Frankfurt and Ireland.
• Price. "You’re billed for the full GPU instance, as you are today."
• AWS's own test. Comparing one partition of an H100 with one whole A100 on Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct, AWS reports the partition was "18–34 percent cheaper per million output tokens, above a crossover", and adds: "Below the crossover the whole A100 is the cheaper unit." It calls the result "a case-by-case comparison, not a verdict." The unit cost is AWS's own construction: "Purely for our own analysis, we derived the unit cost by dividing the whole-instance cost by the number of units on it".

Why it matters

There is earlier history. In June, Bloomberg Law reported that Crusoe had been working with Tallgrass on a 1.8-gigawatt campus in Cheyenne, Wyoming, and quoted the company: "At the request of our customer, Crusoe has paused its development activities". TechRadar reported days later that a Crusoe spokesperson had said Crusoe's interest in the site would likely be bought out by the other development partners. The money figure is Google's own description of a long-term investment, not an amount Crusoe says it received, and Crusoe's release does not say what Google paid for the site.