Google just announced a $15 billion data center development in Montgomery County, Missouri — that's billion with a B — bringing thousands of jobs to a deep-red county in a deep-red state. Turns out when you need reliable power, cheap land, and regulations that don't require a team of lawyers to navigate, you skip San Francisco and head straight to the heartland.

But sure, tell us again how conservative states are "backwards" and "anti-progress." Funny how progress keeps moving its money to places that actually work.

Missouri Governor Mike Kehoe announced the deal on May 20, calling it a game-changer for the region. "This project is about more than infrastructure in Montgomery County — it's about connectivity," Kehoe said. And he's right. The development will sit on over 900 acres near the Interstate 70 and Highway 19 interchange, about an hour east of St. Louis, and it's expected to create thousands of construction jobs and hundreds of permanent positions.

Here's the kicker — each direct job is projected to generate a 9x multiplier effect in the surrounding community. That means every Google employee working at that facility supports nine additional jobs in local businesses, restaurants, and services. That's not government welfare. That's capitalism doing what capitalism does.

Ruth Porat, President and Chief Investment Officer of Alphabet and Google, framed the investment in typically corporate language: "To deliver the upside of technology, we are investing in workforce development and energy affordability." Translation: we're putting our money where the adults are in charge. Google also committed $20 million to reduce energy bills for local residents and plans to train over 2,300 construction workers over two years.

And Google isn't alone. Amazon previously committed $35 billion to data center development in the same area. That's $50 billion in Big Tech money flooding into Missouri. Not California. Not New York. Not Massachusetts. Missouri.

Let that sink in.

These companies spend all day virtue signaling about climate justice and DEI from their glass towers in Silicon Valley, then quietly move their actual infrastructure to states run by Republicans. They need power grids that don't collapse during a heat wave. They need water systems that work. They need local governments that approve permits without a five-year environmental review process.

Google even highlighted its use of air cooling technology — non-evaporative, closed-loop systems designed to conserve water. So the company that lectures you about your carbon footprint is choosing Missouri because Missouri lets them build things efficiently. Imagine that.

As reported by 100 Percent Fed Up, Montgomery County approved Amazon's tax abatement deal back in December 2025, and now Google is piling on. There's a lawsuit scheduled for a June 1 hearing alleging sunshine law violations in how the Amazon deal was handled, but the economic train has already left the station.

The left loves to paint red states as flyover country — places where nothing happens and nobody innovates. Meanwhile, $50 billion in tech infrastructure is being built between St. Louis and the cornfields while San Francisco can't keep its sidewalks clean.

Red states don't need lectures from coastal elites. They need more parking for all the moving trucks headed their way.