According to CoinMeta, Noel Walsh, head of Microsoft's Cloud Operations and Innovation department, stated that the company will bear the electricity costs associated with data center expansion on its own, without relying on government subsidies or passing on these costs to other electricity consumers. Microsoft plans to invest $117 billion in 2026 to build data centers and cloud service computing power, and is collaborating with Chevron and investment firm Engine No.1 to advance large-scale data center and supporting power projects in western Texas. Despite being affected by previous local data center approval suspensions, the project is still scheduled to begin construction in 2028 and enter full operation by 2031. Chevron mentioned that the project will create jobs and generate stable tax revenue for the local area, while Microsoft emphasizes that data center construction must bring net benefits to the community in order to be sustainably pursued.