Microsoft is building a roughly 2-gigawatt data center campus in Pecos, Texas, one of the biggest single capacity adds in its history. In an open letter, the company promises stable power prices and minimal water use, directly addressing the local backlash that has killed dozens of data center projects across the US.

Chevron Corp. signed a 20-year deal with Microsoft Corp. to provide natural-gas fired power for a proposed West Texas data centre. Read here

The Chevron Microsoft gas deal puts a 20-year, 2.67GW natural-gas plant behind a giant West Texas data centre, off the grid and online by 2028.