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Facility snapshot
- Operator as published
- Microsoft
- Address and locality
- La Porte · La Porte County · Indiana
- Lifecycle status
- reported under construction
- Facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Not stated
- Source freshness
- 24 July 2026
- Location precision
- exact
- Source confidence
- confirmed
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-000987
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.
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Status history supplied by the source
- 2024-06 · 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 · reported permitted
Entitlement (permitting) phase completed; expanded plan to 17 buildings filed
- 2026-03 · reported under construction
Site preparation began March 2026; Buildings 1-3 under construction through end of 2027; full completion expected 2029
Sources and attribution
- 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 1.33.0, 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.
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