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Microsoft Abilene (Crusoe) Data Center
Microsoft is the primary tenant at the Microsoft Abilene (Crusoe) data center in Abilene, Taylor County. AI Training + Inference compute for MAI is consumed here.
| Tenant: | Microsoft |
| Facility: | Microsoft Abilene (Crusoe) |
| Operator: | Crusoe (developer, owner, operator) / Microsoft (anchor tenant) |
| Location: | Abilene, Taylor County |
| Capacity (MW): | 900 |
| Status: | Under Construction |
| Type: | AI Factory |
| Workload: | AI Training + Inference |
| Product: | MAI |
| Power: | Dedicated 900 MW on-site power plant plus medium-voltage battery energy storage |
| GPU: | Nvidia (next-gen) |
| Operational: | mid-2027 first building |
| Investment (B): |
Notes: Oracle and OpenAI scrapped expansion beyond the initial 1.2 GW in Mar 2026; Bloomberg reported Nvidia put down a deposit to help line up a replacement, and Meta was briefly expected to take it. Crusoe announced Microsoft as tenant 27 Mar 2026. Two buildings at 336 MW critical IT each. Closed-loop non-evaporative liquid cooling.