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How do you build the next generation of data centres when power availability is becoming one of the industry’ s biggest constraints? Microsoft believes the answer may lie in building energy and data centre infrastructure side by side. The company is planning a new data centre campus in Pecos, West Texas, that will add approximately 2GW of capacity while pairing digital infrastructure with dedicated power generation. Microsoft describes the project as one of the largest capacity additions in its history.
The announcement coincides with a related agreement from Chevron. The company revealed that its subsidiary, Energy Forge One LLC, has signed a 20-year agreement with Microsoft to develop a co-located power facility that will provide dedicated electricity to the new campus.
One of Microsoft’ s largest capacity expansions The centrepiece of the project is a new campus that Microsoft says will expand its global data centre footprint by around 2GW. Noelle Walsh, President of Cloud Operations and Innovation at Microsoft, described the scale of the development in a company blog post announcing the project.
“ Today, Microsoft is announcing one of the largest single capacity additions in our history,” Noelle said.
“ In Pecos, Texas, we will build a new data centre campus,
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