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Facility snapshot
- Operator as published
- Microsoft
- Address and locality
- Rome · Floyd County · Georgia
- Lifecycle status
- reported permitted
- Facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Not stated
- Source freshness
- 25 July 2026
- Location precision
- exact
- Source confidence
- reported
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-000975
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 · 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 · 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
- 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 1.33.0, 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.
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