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Crusoe announced site ↓ Crusoe 900 MW AI factory campus for Microsoft, Abilene, Texas Crusoe announced on 27 March 2026 a new 900 MW AI factory campus in Abilene, adjacent to its existing campus, to support large-scale AI workloads for Microsoft, with land clearing underway and the first building expected to be energized in mid-2027. Copy claim link
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Date 2026-03-27 · announcement Figure measures not stated by the source Stated dates (targets and terms, not events) target operation: mid-2027 Stage announced Quantity exact · 900 MW (as worded: "the 900 MW site") Scope and limits An announced development, with site preparation stated as underway; no contract terms with Microsoft are stated beyond the support relationship. The 900 MW is also the stated size of the on-site power plant, and each of the two buildings is stated as designed for 336 MW of critical IT load (design figures, not operating capacity).
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Crusoe Announces New 900 MW AI Factory Campus in Abilene, Texas to Support Microsoft AI Infrastructure ↗ Crusoe · 2026-03-27
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Source excerpt “Supporting large scale AI workloads for Microsoft, the 900 MW site includes two new buildings and an onsite power plant” Location in source paragraph 1
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Source details and check notes Authors Crusoe Version Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-28 (SHA-256 9e03dfbc4734c549b95703fb0fd3b382cd090c00fb26182dc75197184da17ba0). Newsroom page as served on 2026-10-28; dateline "ABILENE, TX — March 27, 2026". Retrieved again at admission on 2026-10-30 (SHA-256 4a83ee6e049384ae45fa2fa9d31d2f624790da4bee2d76666e560d05b43abea0). Its wording can change; earlier wording is not authenticated. Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-10-28 Language English (en) Attribution Crusoe, “Crusoe Announces New 900 MW AI Factory Campus in Abilene, Texas to Support Microsoft AI Infrastructure”, 2026-03-27. Reuse No open redistribution licence asserted. Bibliographic metadata, editorial paraphrases and short attributed quotations (at most 50 words each). Recheck terms before wider redistribution. Check notes Candidate pack passage, compute, power and orbit (research/compute-power-orbit). The quotation (20 words) matched the text retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-28 and again at admission on 2026-10-30, in a fresh retrieval (SHA-256 4a83ee6e049384ae45fa2fa9d31d2f624790da4bee2d76666e560d05b43abea0; the bytes differ from the pack’s retrieval). Matching ignored differences of whitespace, case, quotation marks, dashes and Unicode compatibility forms, so the source’s typography can differ. A cross-family machine check (2026-10-29/30, item 4) answered the record’s question blind from fresh retrievals and agreed in part; its corrections were applied at admission. No human editorial review. primary source Supports the claim
Crusoe Announces New 900 MW AI Factory Campus in Abilene, Texas to Support Microsoft AI Infrastructure ↗ Crusoe · 2026-03-27
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Source excerpt “with the first building expected to be energized in mid-2027” Location in source paragraph 1
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Source details and check notes Authors Crusoe Version Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-28 (SHA-256 9e03dfbc4734c549b95703fb0fd3b382cd090c00fb26182dc75197184da17ba0). Newsroom page as served on 2026-10-28; dateline "ABILENE, TX — March 27, 2026". Retrieved again at admission on 2026-10-30 (SHA-256 4a83ee6e049384ae45fa2fa9d31d2f624790da4bee2d76666e560d05b43abea0). Its wording can change; earlier wording is not authenticated. Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-10-28 Language English (en) Attribution Crusoe, “Crusoe Announces New 900 MW AI Factory Campus in Abilene, Texas to Support Microsoft AI Infrastructure”, 2026-03-27. Reuse No open redistribution licence asserted. Bibliographic metadata, editorial paraphrases and short attributed quotations (at most 50 words each). Recheck terms before wider redistribution. Check notes Candidate pack passage, compute, power and orbit (research/compute-power-orbit). The quotation (10 words) matched the text retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-28 and again at admission on 2026-10-30, in a fresh retrieval (SHA-256 4a83ee6e049384ae45fa2fa9d31d2f624790da4bee2d76666e560d05b43abea0; the bytes differ from the pack’s retrieval). Matching ignored differences of whitespace, case, quotation marks, dashes and Unicode compatibility forms, so the source’s typography can differ. A cross-family machine check (2026-10-29/30, item 4) answered the record’s question blind from fresh retrievals and agreed in part; its corrections were applied at admission. No human editorial review. primary source Supports the claim
Crusoe Announces New 900 MW AI Factory Campus in Abilene, Texas to Support Microsoft AI Infrastructure ↗ Crusoe · 2026-03-27
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Paraphrase the new campus is located adjacent to Crusoe's existing Abilene AI factory infrastructure, and land clearing and site preparation are underway.
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Source details and check notes Authors Crusoe Version Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-28 (SHA-256 9e03dfbc4734c549b95703fb0fd3b382cd090c00fb26182dc75197184da17ba0). Newsroom page as served on 2026-10-28; dateline "ABILENE, TX — March 27, 2026". Retrieved again at admission on 2026-10-30 (SHA-256 4a83ee6e049384ae45fa2fa9d31d2f624790da4bee2d76666e560d05b43abea0). Its wording can change; earlier wording is not authenticated. Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-10-28 Language English (en) Attribution Crusoe, “Crusoe Announces New 900 MW AI Factory Campus in Abilene, Texas to Support Microsoft AI Infrastructure”, 2026-03-27. Reuse No open redistribution licence asserted. Bibliographic metadata, editorial paraphrases and short attributed quotations (at most 50 words each). Recheck terms before wider redistribution. Check notes Candidate pack passage, compute, power and orbit (research/compute-power-orbit). The paraphrase is Selekoa’s, written from the text retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-28; it is not a quotation and was not machine-matched. The cross-family check found it faithful. A cross-family machine check (2026-10-29/30, item 4) answered the record’s question blind from fresh retrievals and agreed in part; its corrections were applied at admission. No human editorial review. primary source Context only
Crusoe Announces New 900 MW AI Factory Campus in Abilene, Texas to Support Microsoft AI Infrastructure ↗ Crusoe · 2026-03-27
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Paraphrase the release describes a 900MW on-site power plant and each of the two new buildings as designed to deliver 336 MW of critical IT load.
Location in source section "Energy-first AI infrastructure"
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Source details and check notes Authors Crusoe Version Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-28 (SHA-256 9e03dfbc4734c549b95703fb0fd3b382cd090c00fb26182dc75197184da17ba0). Newsroom page as served on 2026-10-28; dateline "ABILENE, TX — March 27, 2026". Retrieved again at admission on 2026-10-30 (SHA-256 4a83ee6e049384ae45fa2fa9d31d2f624790da4bee2d76666e560d05b43abea0). Its wording can change; earlier wording is not authenticated. Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-10-28 Language English (en) Attribution Crusoe, “Crusoe Announces New 900 MW AI Factory Campus in Abilene, Texas to Support Microsoft AI Infrastructure”, 2026-03-27. Reuse No open redistribution licence asserted. Bibliographic metadata, editorial paraphrases and short attributed quotations (at most 50 words each). Recheck terms before wider redistribution. Check notes Candidate pack passage, compute, power and orbit (research/compute-power-orbit). The paraphrase is Selekoa’s, written from the text retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-28; it is not a quotation and was not machine-matched. The cross-family check found it faithful. A cross-family machine check (2026-10-29/30, item 4) answered the record’s question blind from fresh retrievals and agreed in part; its corrections were applied at admission. No human editorial review. Status and meaning Editorial status. Not reviewed by an editor . An exploratory record that no editor has accepted. This status does not say whether a person has read any linked passage. Each evidence record above shows how it was checked.
Relation. A party announced a data-centre site, campus or other infrastructure, dated by the announcement. An announcement is not construction, operation, ownership or a contract.
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