Status: Pre-FID / Engineering & Permitting Phase (Targeting FID Q4 2026) | Location: Co-located industrial parcel, West Texas
The Chevron-Microsoft West Texas Kilby Campus (officially designated as Project Kilby) represents a milestone in behind-the-meter, mega-scale AI infrastructure development. Formally announced in June 2026 via a 20-year power purchase agreement (PPA) between Microsoft Corporation and Chevron’s wholly owned subsidiary, Energy Forge One LLC, this project directly addresses grid interconnection bottlenecks by co-locating power generation with hyper-scale computing. Designed to deliver up to 2.67 gigawatts (GW) of dedicated, dispatchable capacity, the campus will support Microsoft’s next-generation AI and cloud infrastructure while completely isolating its heavy baseload requirements from the local consumer grid. Developed in collaboration with Engine No. 1, the campus leverages West Texas’s vast Permian Basin natural gas resources to fuel a highly advanced on-site power plant. The generation architecture features heavy-duty gas turbines from GE Vernova alongside specialized aero-derivative units from Solar Turbines (a Caterpillar Inc. subsidiary). This mixed-turbine topology provides the configuration flexibility needed to ramp electricity generation up or down rapidly in lockstep with the fluctuating computational demands of massive AI training clusters and frontier neural models.
| Field | Value |
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| Project Name | West Texas: 2.67GW Project Kilby Co-Located Natural Gas & AI Data Center |
| Location | Co-located industrial parcel, West Texas |
| Status | Pre-FID / Engineering & Permitting Phase (Targeting FID Q4 2026) |
| Project Type | Greenfield Behind-The-Meter Mega-Scale Power & Data Center Development |
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| City Name | Texas |
| Population | ~30.5 million (2025 est.) |
| Urban Agglomeration | ~27–28 million (major metro clusters combined) |
| Economic Profile | 🔒 Detailed city intelligence available to subscribers |
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