Microsoft · Abilene, Texas

Crusoe Abilene Expansion

941MW projected

The power of 760,000 US homes, once built.

Under construction. Projected to draw 941 MW by Nov 2027.

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facility power · 4 milestones
Every milestone
  1. 2 Nov 2025 — Land clearing begins for Buildings 1-2.
  2. 15 Jan 2026 — Land clearing continues.
  3. 17 Sep 2027 · projected 470 MW Building 1 operational. Based on the completion date to "build-out an office and data hall", stated in a regulatory filing.
  4. 11 Nov 2027 · projected 941 MW Building 2 operational. Based on the completion date to "build-out an office and data hall", stated in a regulatory filing.

Every step Epoch planned here on 2 Sep 2026 is still on plan. Planned against reached

Gas made 40% of the power on this site's grid

net generation by fuel · Oct 2025 to Sep 2026

Electric Reliability Council of Texas, Inc. ERCO · balancing authority

  1. Gas 40%
  2. Coal 12%
  3. Nuclear 8%
  4. Wind 24%
  5. Solar 16%
  6. Hydro <1%
  7. Other <1%

The grid of the utilities that serve Taylor County, TX. Each grid is a balancing authority. Generation only; imports are excluded. Every grid behind an AI site.

Owners plan 299 MW of new power in Taylor County, all storage

power plants in Taylor County · EIA-860M, September 2026
  1. Chimney Rock BESS Storage · 156 MW · Apr 2028 · proposed · RIC Development, LLC
  2. Summerhill BESS Storage · 143 MW · Dec 2028 · proposed · RIC Development, LLC

In service in Taylor County today: 991 MW. Since January 2023: 20 MW added, 0 MW retired. A plant in the same county does not mean it feeds the site. Power plants near every AI site.

Sources

selected by Epoch AI
  1. Bloomberg reporting that Oracle and OpenAI pulled out of expanding to these buildings, NVIDIA and Meta might replace them
  2. Air Permit Application for the buildings, featuring blueprints on p.391
  3. Aterio
  4. Partnership Announcement with Microsoft

Data: Epoch AI, “AI data centers”, CC BY 4.0, retrieved 22 Oct 2026. Facility power adds cooling and other overhead to the IT power the servers draw. Placed at the centre of Abilene. Grid: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Hourly Electric Grid Monitor (Form EIA-930), public domain, retrieved 16 Oct 2026; utilities by county from Form EIA-861 and the U.S. Census Bureau Geocoder, public domain. Power plants: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Form EIA-860M, public domain, inventory as of September 2026. All sources.