The Stargate campus, developed by Crusoe, is engineered to deliver up to 2GW of AI compute powered by renewable energy and stranded natural gas across a 1,000-acre site. Initial plans called for a full 2GW build-out, but Oracle and OpenAI paused expansion after scaling to 1.2GW. Meta Platforms has also evaluated space at Stargate following Oracle and OpenAI’s decision to pause further scaling, underscoring a surge in AI infrastructure demand. Microsoft’s potential lease highlights intensifying competition among tech giants for power-hungry data center capacity. Microsoft is in advanced talks to lease several hundred megawatts of capacity at the 1,000-acre Stargate data center campus in Abilene, Texas. Securing this space would bolster its AI compute infrastructure amid growing demand for large-scale processing power.