Overview
- Bloomberg reported Tuesday that Microsoft agreed to lease a roughly 700 megawatt data center in Abilene that Oracle and OpenAI had considered.
- The facility is next to Stargate, the Oracle–OpenAI campus that anchors a growing West Texas AI hub.
- Microsoft’s deal is with developer Crusoe after Oracle and OpenAI ended talks to take the site, according to the report.
- The parties have not confirmed the lease, as Microsoft told Reuters it had nothing to share, Oracle and Crusoe did not comment, and a source said OpenAI’s Oracle agreements remain in place.
- Oracle has pushed back on earlier reports of Abilene delays, and the scale — enough power to run tens of thousands of AI chips — shows why companies are scrambling for capacity.