# Microsoft Snatches Up Texas Site Oracle and OpenAI Abandoned - Date: 2026-03-24 - Category: Artificial Intelligence Microsoft has agreed to rent a 700-megawatt data center project in Abilene, Texas that Oracle and OpenAI walked away from, a transaction that illustrates both the scramble for AI compute capacity and the fragility of some of the most high-profile infrastructure commitments in the industry. The s... ---