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Reported geography
Source-reported location for Microsoft La Porte Data Center.
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Source row snapshot
- Operator as published
- Microsoft
- Address and locality
- La Porte · La Porte County · Indiana
- Official metro area
- Michigan City-La Porte, IN
- Source-reported status
- under construction
- Provider facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Not stated
- Source freshness
- 24 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-000987
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
- NIPSCO
- Power source
- Grid
- Land area
- 489 acres (source-reported; parcel boundary not established)
- Announced investment
- $1 billion
- Announced jobs
- 200 permanent
- AI-use label (provider)
- mixed use
- Announced
- June 2024
Incentives reported by the source
Whether each incentive was approved, awarded or received is not established.
- 35-year data center sales tax credit (IEDC), extendable to 45 years per additional $1B invested within first 15 years · Indiana · 2024 Open cited source →
What the source record says
Radius Industrial Park, La Porte IN (La Porte County, NW Indiana). Initial plan 245,000 sq ft on 489 acres; expanded to 17 buildings with adjacent rezoning sought. First-phase six data centers plus substation. Microsoft stated 'Community-First AI Infrastructure' principles. Coordinates are approximate Radius Industrial Park area. Announcement date corrected from 2024-09 to 2024-06 per IEDC press release dated June 4, 2024.
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
- 2024-06 · source-reported proposed
Governor Holcomb announces $1B Microsoft data center at Radius Industrial Park, La Porte; announced June 4, 2024; Indiana's fourth major data center announcement of 2024
- 2025 · source-reported permitted
Entitlement (permitting) phase completed; expanded plan to 17 buildings filed
- 2026-03 · source-reported under construction
Site preparation began March 2026; Buildings 1-3 under construction through end of 2027; full completion expected 2029
Sources and attribution
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- Gov. Holcomb announces plans for new $1B Microsoft Data Center in Northwest Indiana · City of La Porte, IN
- Microsoft expands plans for La Porte, Indiana, data center campus · Data Center Dynamics
- 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-laporte-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-000987
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
- La Porte, IN (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: June 2024
Provider-reported announcement date.
- Status history: 2024-06 · source-reported proposed
Status history supplied by the source.
- Status history: 2025 · source-reported permitted
Status history supplied by the source.
- Status history: 2026-03 · source-reported under construction
Status history supplied by the source.
Area, acreage and buildings
- Land area: 489 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: NIPSCO
Utility as named by the provider.
- Power source: Grid
Provider label.
Permits, incentives, jobs and proceedings
- Announced investment: $1 billion
Announced figure; whether it covers one building, a campus or a multi-phase program is not established.
- Announced jobs: 200 permanent
Announced figures; whether they cover one building, a campus or a multi-phase program is not established.
- Incentive reported by the source: 35-year data center sales tax credit (IEDC), extendable to 45 years per additional $1B invested within first 15 years · Indiana · 2024
Whether the incentive was approved, awarded or received is not established.
Sources, dates, limitations and corrections
- Provider update date: 2026-07-24
Provider update date is not a DataCenterData verification date.
Not yet recorded here: Cooling, water, PUE and WUE · 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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