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Facility snapshot
- Operator as published
- Microsoft
- Address and locality
- Quincy · Grant County · Washington
- Lifecycle status
- reported operational
- Facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Not stated
- Source freshness
- 5 September 2026
- Location precision
- approximate
- Source confidence
- reported
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-000966
What the source record says
Microsoft's first Quincy data center, on land bought in 2006. Began as a 500,000 sq ft building and reached about 800,000 sq ft across two buildings on a 270-acre complex by 2016; reported to draw 30-50 MW in 2012. No current capacity figure is asserted — Microsoft does not release the size or capacity of its Quincy facilities, and the 2012 figure is stale. Microsoft has roughly 400 employees in Quincy across its facilities there. Grant County PUD supplies power. Coordinates are the published minute-precision location (47°14'N 119°52'W).
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
- 2007-05 · reported operational
The data center building opened in April 2007 and became fully operational in May 2007.
Sources and attribution
- Columbia Data Center (Microsoft, Quincy, Washington) · Wikipedia
- Where agriculture meets technology: Inside the small Washington town that became a data center hub · The Spokesman-Review
- A Closer Look: Columbia River Data Centers (February 2026) — Grant County, Washington · Columbia Riverkeeper
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.33.0, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID microsoft-columbia-quincy-wa. Filtered to data-center records in the 50 U.S. states; selected fields normalized for search and display; DataCenterData directory IDs added.
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