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Reported geography
Source-reported location for Microsoft Data Center Campus – Rome, GA.
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Source row snapshot
- Operator as published
- Microsoft
- Address and locality
- Rome · Floyd County · Georgia
- Official metro area
- Rome, GA
- Source-reported status
- permitted
- Provider facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Not stated
- Source freshness
- 25 July 2026
- Location precision
- approximate (provider label: exact; the provider's own note describes an approximate location)
- Compute Atlas confidence label
- reported (provider's classification; not a DataCenterData check)
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-000975
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
- Not established
- Land area
- 347 acres (source-reported; parcel boundary not established)
- Announced jobs
- 150 permanent
- Community response
- Provider label: supported
- AI-use label (provider)
- likely
- Announced
- 2023
Incentives reported by the source
Whether each incentive was approved, awarded or received is not established.
- 12-year partial property tax abatement on buildings + 9-year partial abatement on equipment, granted by Floyd County Development Authority via industrial revenue bonds; land value taxes and Floyd County school taxes remain payable on the land portion · Floyd County, GA · 2023 Open cited source →
Provider notes
Energy. No public utility service agreement confirmed as of 2026-07-07. Georgia Power is the regional electric utility for Floyd County. A January 2025 Georgia PSC rule approved special terms for new large data center customers using >100 MW.
Water. No water usage figures or cooling system type disclosed publicly as of 2026-07-07.
Community. RFCDA chair Jimmy Byars: 'This is a tremendous economic opportunity for our community that will have positive impacts for decades to come.' Floyd County Schools and Rome City Schools superintendents both expressed enthusiasm for workforce training partnership. Microsoft Director of Community Engagement Paul Englis noted 150 jobs is likely 'a bit on the low side.' No opposition documented at October 2023 announcement. Floyd County's 2025 moratorium on new data centers was not directed at the Microsoft project, which had already been filed.
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- Announced investment: The source note treats ‘more than $1 billion’ as a floor, not a firm single figure, and says investment was meant to be omitted.
What the source record says
Investment described as '$1 billion' in RFCDA announcement; Data Center Dynamics and Business Facilities use 'more than $1 billion' framing — treated as a floor, not a firm single figure (investmentUsd omitted per data policy). Completion targeted 2027–2028. Site is 347 acres on Huffaker Road, east of Fouche Gap Road, in unincorporated Floyd County, adjacent to Georgia Power-owned land; land purchased at $40,000/acre (~$13.9M). Microsoft stated site selection was driven by 'Rome and Floyd County's industrial zoning and strong infrastructure.' Microsoft committed to covering all costs for additional infrastructure (power, water, roads) so ratepayers and taxpayers are not burdened. Part of Microsoft's broader East US 3 Georgia cloud build-out; announced to bolster Azure cloud services. Floyd County enacted an 80-day moratorium on new data center permits (2025) but explicitly noted previously filed projects including Microsoft's can proceed. Capacity MW not disclosed. Coordinates are approximate; actual parcel is on Huffaker Road in unincorporated Floyd County.
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
- 2021 · source-reported permitted
Rome Floyd County Development Authority begins working with property owner Floyd County 118 LLC to rezone 347-acre Huffaker Road parcel to Heavy Industrial
- 2023 · source-reported permitted
Publicly announced October 30, 2023 at RFCDA meeting; authority votes to issue industrial revenue bonds and grant partial tax abatements; project entering design phase with completion target 2027–2028
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.
- Microsoft to develop 350-acre data center campus in Rome, Georgia · Data Center Dynamics
- Microsoft To Invest $1 Billion In Data Center in Floyd County · Northwest Georgia News
- $1 Billion Microsoft Data Center Campus Coming to Northwest Georgia · The Georgia Sun
- Microsoft to invest $1 Billion in Rome, GA Data Center Campus · AllOnGeorgia
- Floyd County Commission enacts 80-day moratorium on new data centers · Northwest Georgia News
- HIFLD Electric Retail Service Territories (ORNL/DOE-CESER, 2023-08 vintage) · Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) / HIFLD
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.34.1, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID microsoft-firecracker-rome-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).
Compute Atlas 1.34.1 with retained prior rows and publication holds. This is a DataCenterData composite, not an unmodified publisher edition. This row uses the captured source from 1.34.1, source as of 2026-10-14T20:40:52.293Z.
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Recorded information
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Licensed directory listing dcd-dir-000975
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): likely
Compute Atlas classification, not a DataCenterData finding.
Location and precision
- Rome, GA · Floyd (Approximate location)
Roles
- Operator: Microsoft
Operator label as published by the provider; no parent company is inferred.
Lifecycle
- Source-stated status: source-reported permitted
Provider status label; not a DataCenterData finding that the facility is operating.
- Announced: 2023
Provider-reported announcement date.
- Status history: 2021 · source-reported permitted
Status history supplied by the source.
- Status history: 2023 · source-reported permitted
Status history supplied by the source.
Area, acreage and buildings
- Land area: 347 acres (source-reported; parcel boundary not established)
Power capacity
- Reported capacity: Not stated
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: Not established
Provider label: unknown.
Permits, incentives, jobs and proceedings
- Announced jobs: 150 permanent
Announced figures; whether they cover one building, a campus or a multi-phase program is not established.
- Community response: Provider label: supported
Compute Atlas characterization, not a DataCenterData assessment.
- Incentive reported by the source: 12-year partial property tax abatement on buildings + 9-year partial abatement on equipment, granted by Floyd County Development Authority via industrial revenue bonds; land value taxes and Floyd County school taxes remain payable on the land portion · Floyd County, GA · 2023
Whether the incentive was approved, awarded or received is not established.
Sources, dates, limitations and corrections
- Provider update date: 2026-07-25
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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