Microsoft Secures 900 MW of Texas Juice at Crusoe's Abilene Mega-Campus, Eyeing Mid-2027 Launch

Crusoe is apparently trying to become the Dubai of West Texas. The company announced Friday it's constructing a fresh 900 megawatt AI factory campus to house Microsoft's AI ambitions, solidifying one of the most enormous AI infrastructure hubs in the United States as hyperscalers race to lock down power and data center capacity for next-gen AI workloads. Because apparently, in 2025, terawatts are the new terabytes.

The new campus will snuggle right next to Crusoe's existing Abilene infrastructure and feature two buildings plus an onsite power plant designed to keep the grid from having an existential crisis. Once complete, the site will flex a whopping 2.1 gigawatts of total projected capacity. Land clearing is already underway, and the first building is slated to come online in mid-2027—because waiting until 2028 to power Skynet feels way too leisurely.

This isn't Crusoe's first rodeo in Abilene. Back in March 2025, the company announced it was scaling the campus to 1.2 gigawatts across eight buildings, with phase two originally expected to wrap in 2026. That initial 200 megawatt build has since ballooned into one of the biggest AI infrastructure developments in the country. You know what they say about best-laid plans and enormous power budgets.

The timing is particularly spicy: Microsoft just agreed to lease a large data center in Abilene from Crusoe—about 700 megawatts of capacity that was originally planned for Oracle and OpenAI. That site sits right next to the Stargate campus, proving that in the AI infrastructure arms race, tenants and build plans shuffle faster than a Cardano roadmap.

Abilene has become the place to be for AI builds. Recent chatter ties the area to Stargate-related expansion, and Crusoe isn't slowing down. Earlier this month, the company said it's also building a manufacturing facility for modular AI factories, because when power becomes the bottleneck, standardization becomes the name of the game. It's like Lego, but for data centers that eat electricity like De