Meta has signed new deals to draw computing power from Crusoe, the data-centre developer, adding to the vast and growing pile of infrastructure the company is assembling for its AI ambitions. The agreements cover two sites, in Childress, Texas, and Warrenton, Missouri, and will give Meta roughly 1.6 gigawatts of capacity between them, according to a Bloomberg report citing people familiar with the matter.
The figure is the part to dwell on. A gigawatt is the rough output of a large power station, and 1.6 of them dedicated to a single company’s computing needs is a measure of how the unit of AI ambition has shifted from chips to electricity. Meta is no longer just buying servers; it is contracting for power at the scale of national grid planning, and doing so across multiple developers at once.
Crusoe is the counterparty of the moment. Founded in 2018, the company specialises in building and running large data centres for AI work, and it already has deals with Oracle, Microsoft, and Alphabet’s Google for three other campuses.
Adding Meta to that roster places Crusoe among the developers the largest AI buyers turn to when they need capacity faster than they can build it themselves.
For Meta, the deals are one piece of a much larger and more expensive strategy. Like its Silicon Valley peers, the company has been racing to lock in computing power wherever it can find it, and its single biggest effort is a nearly 4,000-acre campus in Louisiana designed to provide up to five gigawatts of capacity.The 💜 of EU techThe latest rumblings from the EU tech scene, a story from our wise ol' founder Boris, and some questionable AI art. It's free, every week, in your inbox. Sign up now!
