Data center campus
Project Kilby (Chevron / Microsoft)
Project Kilby is an AI data center campus developed by Chevron Corporation in Texas, Pecos. 2.70 GW of capacity has been announced; none is energized yet. The gap is what this page tracks: what is claimed versus what is actually built, each figure dated and sourced.
Announced · Chevron Corporation · greenfield · ERCOT · Pecos, Texas, United States
Capacity: announced vs energized
Announced-to-energized gap: 2.70 GW. Every figure below is a single dated, sourced claim. Current best per series resolves by evidence tier, then date. See the methodology.
Promised online: 2027. 15 months away. Claimed by Chevron / GE Vernova (powering Microsoft) (source).
| Source | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Announced | 2.70 GW | 2026-06-22 | reported | earnings call |
| Announced | 2.67 GW | 2026-06-22 | reported | press release |
Construction evidence
Dated satellite imagery of the site itself, oldest to newest, with the campus milestones that landed in each window. This is what the site looked like from orbit while announcements, permits, and energizations were dated into our ledger, so bare land, grading, and building mass tell their own story alongside the paper trail. Sentinel-2 true color, 10 m resolution, cloud-free scenes; click any frame to expand it.
Delivery paceAnnounced Q2 2026 · not yet energized
Dated Sentinel-2 imagery, gated to hand-verified site coordinates. Milestones synthesized from the campus's own capacity ledger, financial claims, and lifecycle events; each chip links to its source. How we source and verify it: satellite construction evidence.
Key facts
Lifecycle
Announced
Energized
Developer
Location
Grid
Land
Announced-to-energized gap
On the data center map
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- Announced capex
- $9B
- Cooling
- Non-potable brackish groundwater for generation; closed-loop cooling in the data halls requiring only an initial charge at startup
- Grid
- ERCOT · Behind the meter, by design: Kilby generates behind the meter and is co-located with the Microsoft-operated data center it exists to supply, an arrangement the developer presents as avoiding extra strain on the regional grid. Power comes on in phases through 2027 and 2028, with full commercial operation late in the decade.
- Cost per MW
- $3M/MW
Every figure is one row in the ledger below with its source. Derived rows are pure arithmetic on the rows above (not new claims). Absent lines mean the fact isn't on record yet.
In clusterTexas(607)
The deal
- offtaker
- Microsoft · 20-year power agreement
- chip supplier
- GE Vernova · Gas turbine supplier
- developer
- Chevron Corporation · Builds and operates power plant
- construction
- Caterpillar Inc. · Supplies additional gas turbines beyond the primary GE Vernova units.
- power offtaker
- Microsoft · 20-year power purchase agreement signed June 2026 for roughly 2.67 GW from the co-located plant.
- power developer
- Energy Forge One (Chevron) · Wholly owned Chevron subsidiary developing the co-located generation.
Power
- Power source
- behind the meter gas
- Grid operator
- ERCOT
- Interconnection
- Behind the meter, by design: Kilby generates behind the meter and is co-located with the Microsoft-operated data center it exists to supply, an arrangement the developer presents as avoiding extra strain on the regional grid. Power comes on in phases through 2027 and 2028, with full commercial operation late in the decade.
- Water
- Brackish groundwater rather than fresh. Kilby plans to run the plant on non-potable brackish groundwater to reduce demand on shared freshwater, and Chevron says it is working towards using treated produced water for Kilby and other Permian industrial uses over the coming years, to cut groundwater withdrawals further.
Kilby co-located gas plant, 2.70 GW gas, Announced. GE Vernova + Solar Turbines; FID pending
Project Kilby gas power plant, 2.67 GW gas, Announced. Most output from GE Vernova gas turbines with additional Caterpillar turbines; phased build-out; Permian Basin gas cost advantage; power not connected to the grid; FID expected by end of 2026.
The Texas (ERCOT) grid demand right now: 52.0 GW (EIA-930, 2026-09-27 10:00). Project Kilby's announced 2.70 GW would be 5.2% of the grid's current load.
County water status: Severe drought (D2) in Reeves County, week of 2026-09-22 (US Drought Monitor). Data centers are large water users for cooling; this is the neutral local water picture.
Silicon on site
Every AI chip publicly attributed to Project Kilby (Chevron / Microsoft) on the DEPLOY registry. Quantity hints are unstructured because underlying disclosures vary by an order of magnitude. Source links per row.
- as of 2025-01-01
Microsoft-anchored AI capacity at the Chevron gas-turbine-fed campus
inferredInferred from Microsoft's Fairwater-generation Blackwell posture; site is a Chevron-Microsoft build for AI training
Why here
Project Kilby sits on greenfield in Texas, Pecos. It connects to the ERCOT grid, draws on behind the meter gas power, interconnection is Behind the meter, by design: Kilby generates behind the meter and is co-located with the Microsoft-operated data center it exists to supply, an arrangement the developer presents as avoiding extra strain on the regional grid. Power comes on in phases through 2027 and 2028, with full commercial operation late in the decade.. This siting summary is composed from the record's held fields, not speculation; see methodology.
Financial structure
- Power-and-compute deal value (~$9B)
- $9B. Reported deal value for the Chevron/Microsoft West Texas power-and-compute arrangement. tracker
Regulatory paper trail
The filings and rules on record for this site and its jurisdiction, most recent first. Each is a sourced, dated artifact you can follow to the primary document.
Investment, workforce and specs
- Cooling
- Non-potable brackish groundwater for generation; closed-loop cooling in the data halls requiring only an initial charge at startup source
Timeline
- Aug 2026claim recordedmetric:cooling_type
- Sep 2026Current: Announced
Sources
- Chevron Signs 20-Year Power Agreement with Microsoft for West Texas Data Center
- Chevron to fuel massive Microsoft data center in Texas using natural gas
- Kilby power plant · Global Energy Monitor
- Gas-Fired Power Generation for AI Data Centers · Kilby
665b9f79-cb24-42f4-ade4-af461047459d · Tracked with DEPLOY's verified-vs-claimed methodology. Every term is defined in the glossary. Announced numbers are claims, not built capacity.
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Cite this page
DEPLOY. (2026). Project Kilby (Chevron / Microsoft): AI data center campus record. Retrieved September 27, 2026, from https://registry.deploy.report/datacenters/chevron-project-kilby-reeves-texas
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