Chevron signs a 20-year deal with Microsoft to provide natural-gas power for a proposed West Texas data center, which could be one of the biggest in the US (Kevin Crowley/Bloomberg)

<a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-22/microsoft-chevron-sign-20-year-power-deal-for-texas-data-center"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260622/i16.jpg" vspace="4" /></a> <p><a href="https://www.techmeme.com/260622/p16#a260622p16" title="Techmeme permalink"><img height="12" src="http://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png" style="border: none; padding: 0; margin: 0;" width="11" /></a> Kevin Crowley / <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/">Bloomberg</a>:<br /> <span style="font-size: 1.3em;"><b><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-22/microsoft-chevron-sign-20-year-power-deal-for-texas-data-center">Chevron signs a 20-year deal with Microsoft to provide natural-gas power for a proposed West Texas data center, which could be one of the biggest in the US</a></b></span>&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; Chevron Corp. signed a 20-year deal with Microsoft Corp. to provide natural-gas fired power for a proposed West Texas data center, which could be one of the biggest in the US.</p>