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Reported geography
Source-reported location for Microsoft Fairwater Atlanta (Azure AI Superfactory).
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Source row snapshot
- Operator as published
- Microsoft
- Address and locality
- Fayetteville · Fayette County · Georgia
- Official metro area
- Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA
- Source-reported status
- operational
- Provider facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Planned: 1,500 MW (source-reported; boundary not independently verified; MW measure not stated by provider)
- Source freshness
- 26 July 2026
- Location precision
- approximate (provider label: exact; the provider's own note describes an approximate location)
- Compute Atlas confidence label
- confirmed (provider's classification; not a DataCenterData check)
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-000973
Reported details
Source-reported by Compute Atlas; not independently verified by DataCenterData. Provider wording is kept; long provider notes are shortened and marked …; unknown is not zero; none of these values is totaled, ranked or compared.
- Electric utility
- Georgia Power
- Power source
- Grid
- Cooling
- Closed-loop
- Land area
- 615 acres (source-reported; parcel boundary not established)
- Community response
- Provider label: contested
- AI-use label (provider)
- confirmed
- Announced
- 2025
Incentives reported by the source
Whether each incentive was approved, awarded or received is not established.
- Fayette County Development Authority 10-year stepped property-tax abatement (0% yr 1 -> 100% yr 10, +10%/yr) on the QTS 'Project Excalibur' campus; also qualifies for Georgia's statewide data-center sales-and-use tax exemption · Fayette County, GA · 2023 Open cited source →
Provider notes
Energy. Two-story design with no UPS or backup generators (DCD, Oct 2025) — no on-site generation. Microsoft states Fairwater uses improved closed-loop cooling that 'consumes almost zero water in its operation.' Georgia Power 2025 IRP testimony cites the QTS Fayetteville campus as a single load of just under 1,500 MW at full build-out.
Water. QTS closed-loop 'water-free' design (COO Ryan Hunter: 'Once the water's in there, it stays in there for the life of the asset'); ~600,000-gal one-time fill per building, ongoing per-building use 'equivalent to four American households per month.' During construction the campus drew ~29-30M gallons through two unmetered connections (2024-25); Fayette County issued a ~$147,000 retroactive charge and no fine. No operational daily figure for the Microsoft tenant space specifically.
Community. Fayetteville adopted a 90-day moratorium (Jan 29 2026) then unanimously passed Ordinance 26-O-12 (March 5 2026) banning new data centers in all zoning districts; existing Fairwater 1/2 and the Dec 2025 East Campus rezoning are grandfathered. Opposition centered on construction traffic, the ~29M-gal unmetered water draw, and new 500 kV transmission lines; Mayor Edward Johnson expressed support. A competing Crow Holdings proposal withdrew its appeal after the ban. No litigation against the Fairwater campus.
What the source record says
615-acre, up-to-13-building QTS-built campus on Hwy 54W near Fayetteville, Fayette County (Microsoft's materials say 'Atlanta'). Began operation Oct 2025 as Fairwater 2 — a 'multi-gigawatt' AI campus. ~1,500 MW is the anticipated ultimate Georgia Power load across all buildings (planned figure; ~433 MW cited as initially online). Distinct from Microsoft's smaller Tyrone, GA campus. Two-story design with no UPS or backup generators. Coordinates are the Fayetteville area centroid. Microsoft has not disclosed tenant capex for the Fairwater Fayetteville space; the ~$1B/$6.5B figures are QTS developer build-out estimates for the full multi-tenant campus, and the widely-cited $14.5M abatement / $1.8B / $75M figures attach to different Microsoft/Fulton-County sites (the $75M was FCDA land-sale proceeds, not a subsidy to QTS) -> investmentUsd omitted.
Any MW value is reproduced as source-reported context. Its measurement boundary is not established consistently enough for comparison. Unknown is not zero.
Status history supplied by the source
- 2025-10 · source-reported operational
Microsoft's Atlanta Fairwater AI datacenter began operation in October 2025 — the second in the Fairwater family; two-story, no UPS/gensets
Sources and attribution
These sources are listed for the whole row. Unless a figure links to its own source, the provider does not mark which one gave it, so a figure may not appear in every source.
- From Wisconsin to Atlanta, Microsoft connects datacenters to build its first AI superfactory · Microsoft
- Microsoft launches Atlanta Fairwater data center, two stories, no UPS or gen sets · Data Center Dynamics
- Microsoft debuts AI 'superfactory' data center south of Atlanta · The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
- Behind Fayette's QTS water controversy: a missed meter, 8,000 workers · The Citizen
- Microsoft Fairwater Atlanta: a grid-only gigawatt AI data center · Measured AI
- Georgia data center boom: what it's like to have one in your community · WBRC
- Incentives & tax rates · Fayette County Development Authority
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.34.1, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID microsoft-fairwater-fayetteville-ga. Filtered to data-center records in the 50 U.S. states; selected fields normalized for search and display; DataCenterData directory IDs added. Some locations in this layer are reported by the provider as derived from OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL, https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright) and Epoch AI (CC BY 4.0).
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Recorded information
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Licensed directory listing dcd-dir-000973
Licensed directory row.
Provider notes and the source narrative are printed on this page and are not repeated here.
Identity and relationships
- Provider facility type: data center
Provider facility type.
- AI-use label (provider): confirmed
Compute Atlas classification, not a DataCenterData finding.
Location and precision
- Fayetteville, GA (Approximate location)
Roles
- Operator: Microsoft
Operator label as published by the provider; no parent company is inferred.
Lifecycle
- Source-stated status: source-reported operational
Provider status label; not a DataCenterData finding that the facility is operating.
- Announced: 2025
Provider-reported announcement date.
- Status history: 2025-10 · source-reported operational
Status history supplied by the source.
Area, acreage and buildings
- Land area: 615 acres (source-reported; parcel boundary not established)
Power capacity
- Reported capacity: Planned: 1,500 MW (source-reported; boundary not independently verified; MW measure not stated by provider)
Reproduced as the page prints it; not ranked or totaled; unknown is not zero.
- Electric utility: Georgia Power
Utility as named by the provider.
- Power source: Grid
Provider label.
Cooling, water, PUE and WUE
- Cooling: Closed-loop
Provider label.
Permits, incentives, jobs and proceedings
- Community response: Provider label: contested
Compute Atlas characterization, not a DataCenterData assessment.
- Incentive reported by the source: Fayette County Development Authority 10-year stepped property-tax abatement (0% yr 1 -> 100% yr 10, +10%/yr) on the QTS 'Project Excalibur' campus; also qualifies for Georgia's statewide data-center sales-and-use tax exemption · Fayette County, GA · 2023
Whether the incentive was approved, awarded or received is not established.
Sources, dates, limitations and corrections
- Provider update date: 2026-07-26
Provider update date is not a DataCenterData verification date.
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Licensed values: adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak under CC BY 4.0. Source-reported and not independently verified.
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