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Reported geography
Source-reported location for Microsoft Malaga Campus.
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Source row snapshot
- Operator as published
- Microsoft
- Address and locality
- Malaga Alcoa Highway · Malaga · Chelan County · Washington
- Official metro area
- Outside an official metropolitan boundary
- Source-reported status
- under construction
- Provider facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Planned: 288 MW (source-reported; boundary not independently verified; MW measure not stated by provider)
- Source freshness
- 12 October 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-000990
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
- Chelan County PUD
- Power source
- Hydro
- Cooling
- Air
- Land area
- 102.5 acres (source-reported; parcel boundary not established)
- Community response
- Provider label: mixed
- AI-use label (provider)
- confirmed
- Announced
- March 2023
Provider notes
Energy. Carbon-free hydropower from Chelan PUD; 18 MW surplus hydropower through end of 2025, then long-term arrangement under utility energy marketing strategy. Under the June 2025 large-load contract, Microsoft will import new clean power from a third-party supplier for 2026-2040 (source undetermined); Chelan PUD is not obligated to serve its own hydropower. Microsoft funded the $86.5M Jumpoff Ridge substation.
Water. Newest AI datacenter buildings designed for no evaporative cooling water use per Microsoft Community-First blog. Earlier permit data shows ~83 gpm per building for fire suppression and employee use, not cooling.
Community. Chelan County PUD commissioners approved Microsoft's large-load power contract on June 16, 2025 (the first under the PUD's new large-load framework), structured so Microsoft bears the full cost and risk of its demand. Public comments centered on preserving reliability and affordable rates for existing customers, with some concern about service priority during energy shortfalls. No litigation.
What the source record says
Three-building campus at 5375 Malaga Alcoa Highway; two additional buildings possible by 2027 on demand. 288 MW figure from secondary aggregator Cleanview only; primary sources (DCD, Microsoft) do not specify MW capacity. Construction of first building began June 2023 per Microsoft Local blog; original statusHistory incorrectly dated under_construction to 2024-05. Expected operational 2026. Coordinates approximate for Malaga area on Malaga Alcoa Highway. A Building-1 permit cites ~72 peak-shift staff (a single-building figure, not a facility employment total); no confirmed total campus capital-expenditure figure is public. Go-live check 2026-08-08: NO citable operational date exists. Microsoft's own Malaga project page gives a first-phase construction window concluding in early 2026 but states plainly that "Completion of construction does not indicate datacenter operation/availability", and publishes no energization or service date. Secondary reporting that the first building would be "powered in August and fully operational by late 2026" is forward-looking and was not used to move the status. Remains under_construction. Microsoft's own Quincy/Central Washington community page states it "operates datacenters in Quincy and is developing new datacenters in Malaga and East Wenatchee" — positively confirming the site is not yet operational.
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
- 2022-04 · source-reported proposed
Microsoft acquired 102.5 acres on Malaga Alcoa Highway for $9.2M across three parcels
- 2023-03 · source-reported permitted
Permits filed for three data center buildings on Malaga Alcoa Highway; Chelan County
- 2023-06 · source-reported under construction
Construction of first datacenter building commenced June 2023 per Microsoft Local blog; Jumpoff Ridge Substation also under construction on campus
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 Plans Three Data Centers in Malaga, Washington · Data Center Dynamics
- Malaga Datacenter Project Overview · Microsoft Local
- Microsoft Malaga Campus — 288 MW capacity profile · Cleanview
- PUD commissioners approve power contract for Microsoft data center · Chelan County PUD
- Quincy Community — Microsoft Local · Microsoft
- Chelan County PUD commissioners OK energy contract with Microsoft for Malaga data center buildings · The Wenatchee World
- A Closer Look: Columbia River Data Centers (February 2026) — Chelan County: 24 MW existing / 288 MW planned · Columbia Riverkeeper
- Washington state grapples with the AI data center boom · Cascade PBS
- Washington Utility District OKs $4M Investment in Microsoft Substation · Government Technology
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.34.1, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID microsoft-malaga-wa. 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-000990
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
- Malaga Alcoa Highway, Malaga, WA · Chelan (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: March 2023
Provider-reported announcement date.
- Status history: 2022-04 · source-reported proposed
Status history supplied by the source.
- Status history: 2023-03 · source-reported permitted
Status history supplied by the source.
- Status history: 2023-06 · source-reported under construction
Status history supplied by the source.
Area, acreage and buildings
- Land area: 102.5 acres (source-reported; parcel boundary not established)
Power capacity
- Reported capacity: Planned: 288 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: Chelan County PUD
Utility as named by the provider.
- Power source: Hydro
Provider label.
Cooling, water, PUE and WUE
- Cooling: Air
Provider label.
Permits, incentives, jobs and proceedings
- Community response: Provider label: mixed
Compute Atlas characterization, not a DataCenterData assessment.
Sources, dates, limitations and corrections
- Provider update date: 2026-10-12
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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