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Crusoe Abilene Microsoft AI Factory Campus

Crusoe Abilene Microsoft AI Factory Campus is an AI data center campus developed by Crusoe in Texas, Abilene. 0.90 GW of capacity has been announced; none is energized yet. The gap is what this page tracks: what is claimed versus what is actually built, each figure dated and sourced.

Under construction · Crusoe · Private land · ERCOT · Abilene, Texas, United States

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Capacity: announced vs energized

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Under construction
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Energized
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Announced-to-energized gap: 0.90 GW. Every figure below is a single dated, sourced claim. Current best per series resolves by evidence tier, then date. See the methodology.

48th-largest announced of 102 tracked campuses56th percentile announced-to-energized gap≈ 729,000 homes of power at full announced capacity (basis)
Crusoe Abilene Microsoft AI Factory Campus capacity claims
Source
Announced0.90 GW2026-03-27claimedcompany

Key facts

under construction

Lifecycle

0.90 GW

Announced

0 GW

Energized

Crusoe

Developer

United States

Location

ERCOT

Grid

private land

Land

2

Facilities tracked

Reported facts

Structured facts sourced from citations already on this record. Each fact traces to a source in the References section below.

Operator / developer
Crusoe (Crusoe)
Named tenant / customer
Microsoft (large-scale AI workloads; Microsoft Cloud Operations & Innovation president quoted in Crusoe release) (Crusoe)
Location
Abilene, Texas; adjacent to Crusoe's existing Abilene AI factory infrastructure (Crusoe)
Lifecycle / timeline
Land clearing and site preparation underway at announcement (Mar 27, 2026); first building expected to energize mid-2027 (Crusoe)
Announced campus capacity
900 MW campus (two buildings); each building designed for 336 MW critical IT load; combined with existing Abilene infrastructure projected ~2.1 GW (Crusoe)
On-site power
900 MW behind-the-meter on-site power plant paired with medium-voltage BESS for operational reliability and grid resilience (Crusoe)
Cooling
Closed-loop non-evaporative liquid cooling (company) (Crusoe)
Adjacent Abilene context
Company: first Abilene project was two 100 MW buildings energized in under a year; second phase adds six buildings toward 1.2 GW by end of 2026 on the existing campus next door (Crusoe)
Jobs (company claim)
Thousands of additional construction and hundreds of permanent jobs expected in the Abilene region (company) (Crusoe)
Related campuses
Adjacent to / distinct from Crusoe Abilene AI Data Center (Stargate Site 1) and Stargate Abilene (Oracle/OpenAI).

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The story of Crusoe Abilene Microsoft AI Factory Campus
Cooling
closed-loop non-evaporative liquid cooling
Grid
ERCOT · live in ~10 months
Tenant
Microsoft

Every figure is one row in the ledger below with its source. Derived rows are pure arithmetic on the rows above (not new claims). Absent lines mean the fact isn't on record yet.

In clusterTexas(606)

The deal

developer
Crusoe · Builds and operates the new Abilene Microsoft AI factory campus.
tenant
Microsoft · Named customer for large-scale AI workloads at the new campus.
grid operator
ERCOT · Campus sits in the ERCOT footprint (registry gridOperator).

Power

Power source
behind the meter gas
Grid operator
ERCOT
Interconnection
Water
Crusoe closed-loop non-evaporative liquid cooling systems (company) ([Crusoe](https://www.crusoe.ai/resources/newsroom/crusoe-announces-new-900-mw-ai-factory-campus-in-abilene-texas-to-support-microsoft-ai-infrastructure)).

Abilene Microsoft campus behind-the-meter plant, 0.90 GW other, Announced. Crusoe: 900 MW behind-the-meter on-site power plant with MV BESS. Primary release does not name the fuel mix; typed as other.

Abilene Microsoft campus MV BESS, other, Announced. Medium-voltage battery energy storage paired with the on-site plant.

The Texas (ERCOT) grid demand right now: 56.1 GW (EIA-930, 2026-09-28 08:00). Crusoe Abilene Microsoft AI Factory Campus's announced 0.90 GW would be 1.6% of the grid's current load.

County water status: Severe drought (D2) in Taylor County, week of 2026-09-22 (US Drought Monitor). Data centers are large water users for cooling; this is the neutral local water picture.

Why here

Crusoe Abilene Microsoft AI Factory Campus sits on private land in Texas, Abilene. It connects to the ERCOT grid, draws on behind the meter gas power. This siting summary is composed from the record's held fields, not speculation; see methodology.

Regulatory paper trail

The filings and rules on record for this site and its jurisdiction, most recent first. Each is a sourced, dated artifact you can follow to the primary document.

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Investment, workforce and specs

Cooling
closed-loop non-evaporative liquid cooling source

Facilities at this campus

Timeline

  2. Sep 2026
    party added
    grid_operator: ERCOT
  3. Sep 2026
    Current: Under construction

Sources

d7e72a52-2394-4b8e-9583-dcabc8fa0f7d · Tracked with DEPLOY's verified-vs-claimed methodology. Every term is defined in the glossary. Announced numbers are claims, not built capacity.

Head-to-head

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Common questions

What is Crusoe Abilene Microsoft AI Factory Campus?
Crusoe Abilene Microsoft AI Factory Campus is an AI data center campus tracked on the DEPLOY registry, located in Abilene. DEPLOY records its capacity as a dated, sourced ledger: announced gigawatts versus actually energized gigawatts, never a press-release total.
How much power will Crusoe Abilene Microsoft AI Factory Campus use?
Crusoe Abilene Microsoft AI Factory Campus has 0.90 GW of announced capacity on the DEPLOY registry; no energized capacity is yet recorded. Each figure is individually dated and sourced.
Who is building Crusoe Abilene Microsoft AI Factory Campus?
Crusoe is recorded as a party to Crusoe Abilene Microsoft AI Factory Campus on the DEPLOY registry. The full party list, with each role, is on the record.
Is Crusoe Abilene Microsoft AI Factory Campus operating yet?
As of the most recent verification on the DEPLOY registry, Crusoe Abilene Microsoft AI Factory Campus is under construction. DEPLOY tracks the lifecycle from announced through energized, so the current state reflects sourced evidence, not the original announcement.
How verified is the data on Crusoe Abilene Microsoft AI Factory Campus?
A human editor has reviewed this record for the indexed registry. Every capacity figure is an append-only, dated claim resolved to the highest-evidence tier; superseded claims are kept but excluded from the current view.

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DEPLOY. (2026). Crusoe Abilene Microsoft AI Factory Campus: AI data center campus record. Retrieved September 28, 2026, from https://registry.deploy.report/datacenters/crusoe-abilene-microsoft-campus

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