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Nscale Texas AI Campus (Microsoft)

Nscale Texas AI Campus is a tracked AI data center campus in Texas, Barstow. Nscale Texas hyperscale AI campus for Microsoft: ~240 MW / ~104,000 NVIDIA GB300 GPUs from Q3 2026 per Nscale Oct 15 2025 release; leased from Ionic Digital with a claimed path to 1.2 GW and a Microsoft option on a furth

Energized · Nscale · Barstow, Texas, United States

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Nscale Texas AI Campus (Microsoft) capacity claims
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Key facts

energized

Lifecycle

0 GW

Energized

Nscale

Developer

United States

Location

Reported facts

Structured facts sourced from citations already on this record. Each fact traces to a source in the References section below.

IT capacity (company-claimed)
About 240 MW; about 104,000 NVIDIA GB300 GPUs for Microsoft from Q3 2026
Landlord
Ionic Digital
Expansion (company-claimed)
Plans to reach 1.2 GW; Microsoft option on a second 700 MW phase from late 2027.
Site
Ionic Digital's Cedarvale facility in Barstow, Texas; full 234 MW leased to Nscale

On the data center map

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The deal

developer
Nscale

Power

Interconnection

County water status: Abnormally dry (D0) in Ward County, week of 2026-11-03 (US Drought Monitor). Data centers are large water users for cooling; this is the neutral local water picture.

Why here

Nscale Texas AI Campus is in Texas, Barstow. This siting summary is composed from the record's held fields, not speculation; see methodology.

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.

Sources

5455c475-e688-4e47-b8a6-70b2a6f6c5aa · Tracked with DEPLOY's verified-vs-claimed methodology. Every term is defined in the glossary. Announced numbers are claims, not built capacity.

Head-to-head

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Common questions

What is Nscale Texas AI Campus (Microsoft)?
Nscale Texas AI Campus (Microsoft) is an AI data center campus tracked on the DEPLOY registry, located in Barstow. DEPLOY records its capacity as a dated, sourced ledger: announced gigawatts versus actually energized gigawatts, never a press-release total.
Who is building Nscale Texas AI Campus (Microsoft)?
Nscale is recorded as a party to Nscale Texas AI Campus (Microsoft) on the DEPLOY registry. The full party list, with each role, is on the record.
Is Nscale Texas AI Campus (Microsoft) operating yet?
As of the most recent verification on the DEPLOY registry, Nscale Texas AI Campus (Microsoft) is energized and operating. DEPLOY tracks the lifecycle from announced through energized, so the current state reflects sourced evidence, not the original announcement.
How verified is the data on Nscale Texas AI Campus (Microsoft)?
This record has been checked against its cited sources by automated agents for the indexed registry; it has not been individually reviewed by a person. Every capacity figure is an append-only, dated claim resolved to the highest-evidence tier; superseded claims are kept but excluded from the current view.

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DEPLOY. (2026). Nscale Texas AI Campus (Microsoft): AI data center campus record. Retrieved November 11, 2026, from https://registry.deploy.report/datacenters/nscale-texas-campus

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