en.Wedoany.com Reported - US social media giant Meta Platforms has reached a new AI computing power procurement agreement with US data center developer Crusoe, securing approximately 1.6 gigawatts of data center capacity. According to Bloomberg, citing sources familiar with the matter, Meta has signed a contract with Crusoe to purchase computing power from two data centers located in Childress, Texas, and Warrenton, Missouri. The combined capacity of these two facilities is approximately 1.6 GW, enough to power up to 1.2 million US households simultaneously. The specific amount of the transaction and the delivery timeline for the computing power have not been disclosed, and spokespersons for both Meta and Crusoe declined to comment on the matter.
Founded in 2018, Crusoe specializes in building and operating large-scale data centers for AI workloads. Earlier this month, the company disclosed that it has secured 4.9 GW of contracted capacity, with an overall project pipeline exceeding 40 GW, encompassing data centers still in tenant negotiations and sites in advanced stages of development. Crusoe's client list already includes Oracle, Microsoft, and Google. Its contracted projects include a campus in Abilene, Texas, built for Oracle and OpenAI, a data center supporting Microsoft, and a third site near Amarillo, Texas, already secured for Google. Despite strong overall momentum, Crusoe has also faced challenges on some projects—after negotiations for an early deal with Google fell through, Crusoe withdrew from a planned data center development project in Wyoming.
Meta is accelerating the expansion of its AI infrastructure, and this agreement with Crusoe is part of its strategy to diversify computing power sources. The company has previously committed to investing at least $600 billion in AI infrastructure over the coming years. Meta's largest single AI infrastructure project is located in Louisiana, a data center campus spanning nearly 4,000 acres with a planned capacity of up to 5 GW. Meta's platforms, including Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, recently launched their first AI chatbot subscription service, seen as a key step in converting AI investments into commercial revenue.
The 1.6 GW commitment is one of the largest single AI computing deals reached by a hyperscale cloud provider in 2026. Meta, along with tech giants such as Amazon, Microsoft, and Google, invests tens of billions of dollars annually in data center construction, driven by the immense computing power required to train and run large language models. This deal with Crusoe provides the necessary capacity without requiring Meta to build and operate the facilities itself, a strategy that maintains balance sheet flexibility while ensuring the computing power needed for large model training and deployment.
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