Sources: Microsoft agrees to a deal with Crusoe to lease a data center in Abilene, Texas, representing ~700 MW of capacity, after Oracle and OpenAI walked away
To be clear, this is on the Abilene data center campus that was meant to have 8 buildings by the end of this year, but has only built 2. Microsoft's share of the abilene campus won't be built any time before 2028, at best. The power doesn't exist. Very easy to check this [embe…