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Reported geography
Source-reported location for Microsoft Granger Data Center.
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Source row snapshot
- Operator as published
- Microsoft
- Address and locality
- Granger · St. Joseph County · Indiana
- Official metro area
- South Bend-Mishawaka, IN-MI
- Source-reported status
- under construction
- Provider facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Planned: 1,000 MW (source-reported; boundary not independently verified; MW measure not stated by provider)
- Source freshness
- 30 May 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-000980
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
- Indiana Michigan Power (I&M / AEP)
- Power source
- Grid
- Cooling
- Closed-loop
- Land area
- 939 acres (source-reported; parcel boundary not established)
- Announced jobs
- 300 permanent
- Community response
- Provider label: mixed
- AI-use label (provider)
- mixed use
- Announced
- 2024
Provider notes
Energy. Grid-served; Microsoft is named among large-load customers in I&M's 2024 settlement. No on-site generation reported.
Water. Closed-loop cooling: coolant is mixed outside St. Joseph County, trucked to the site, and transported out after about two years for cleaning. Mishawaka city water is used for domestic use only; on-site groundwater wells were capped (no aquifer withdrawal). No withdrawal-rate figure disclosed.
Community. Residents raised concerns at town hall about approximately 300 diesel generators, drainage, emissions, and water supply adequacy. Four-party water agreement reached (City of Mishawaka, St. Joseph County, Regional Water and Sewer District, Granger Water LLC) after months of disputes. Microsoft not seeking local tax abatements.
What the source record says
Former St. Joe Farm, near Bittersweet Road and Currant Road, Granger IN (St. Joseph County). 939 acres; 5-6 buildings planned; ~1 GW power load estimated by county officials. Microsoft not seeking local tax incentives. Status downgraded from 'under_construction' to 'permitted': WSBT source (cited in original record for the construction claim) explicitly states 'no construction has begun' and no formal site plan submitted; WNDU March 2026 MOU covers pre-development evaluation only. Confidence downgraded to 'reported' pending construction confirmation. Coordinates are approximate Granger unincorporated community area.
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
- 2024 · source-reported proposed
Microsoft acquires 939-acre St. Joe Farm near Currant and Cleveland Roads, Granger IN for $77.5M; site adjacent to Indiana Toll Road; county rezones land
- 2026-03 · source-reported permitted
St. Joseph County Redevelopment Commission and City of Mishawaka approve MOU for pre-development work; $12.6M cap for early design and infrastructure evaluation; construction authorization pending resolution of utility and site plan questions
- 2026-05-30 · source-reported under construction
Physical construction underway as of late May 2026 — active site earthwork, water trucked in for dust suppression, and the county highway department monitoring construction traffic. Follows the St. Joseph County MOU approval (March 17, 2026) and groundbreaking in late April/early May 2026.
Sources and attribution
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- Microsoft buys 900-acre St. Joe Farm, Indiana, for data center build · Data Center Dynamics
- Microsoft data center MOU approved in St. Joseph County amid resident concerns · WNDU NBC South Bend
- Granger meeting draws crowd for update on large Microsoft data center planned · WSBT CBS South Bend
- Construction of Microsoft data center could begin in late April or early May · WSBT
- Microsoft data center concerns spark crowded Granger meeting · WVPE
- St. Joseph County officials respond to data center construction concerns (construction underway) · WVPE (NPR member station)
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.34.1, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID microsoft-granger-in. 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-000980
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): mixed use
Compute Atlas classification, not a DataCenterData finding.
Location and precision
- Granger, IN · St. Joseph (Approximate location)
Roles
- Operator: Microsoft
Operator label as published by the provider; no parent company is inferred.
Lifecycle
- Source-stated status: source-reported under construction
Provider status label; not a DataCenterData finding that the facility is operating.
- Announced: 2024
Provider-reported announcement date.
- Status history: 2024 · source-reported proposed
Status history supplied by the source.
- Status history: 2026-03 · source-reported permitted
Status history supplied by the source.
- Status history: 2026-05-30 · source-reported under construction
Status history supplied by the source.
Area, acreage and buildings
- Land area: 939 acres (source-reported; parcel boundary not established)
Power capacity
- Reported capacity: Planned: 1,000 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: Indiana Michigan Power (I&M / AEP)
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
- Announced jobs: 300 permanent
Announced figures; whether they cover one building, a campus or a multi-phase program is not established.
- Community response: Provider label: mixed
Compute Atlas characterization, not a DataCenterData assessment.
Sources, dates, limitations and corrections
- Provider update date: 2026-05-30
Provider update date is not a DataCenterData verification date.
Not yet recorded here: Connectivity · Services · Certifications and design ratings · Rack density · Availability · Specification links and contact.
Licensed values: adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak under CC BY 4.0. Source-reported and not independently verified.
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