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Microsoft and Meta Add Nearly $50 Billion Each in Future Data-Center Leases

The rush to lock in AI compute capacity has pushed industrywide future obligations beyond $700 billion.

Overview

  • The new commitments came in the most recent quarters, according to a Bloomberg analysis of company filings.
  • Microsoft’s total future lease obligations now stand at $155 billion, with Meta at $104 billion.
  • Oracle leads the group with $261 billion in future commitments after a 2025 surge that coincided in timing with a large OpenAI cloud arrangement.
  • Microsoft and Meta are reportedly in talks to secure capacity at the Oracle and OpenAI data-center campus in Abilene, Texas, following Oracle’s pullback on expansion there.
  • These are future lease commitments rather than active leases, and Microsoft separately reported $6.7 billion in fiscal Q2 2026 leasing spend while bringing one gigawatt of capacity online.