This is a source-attributed discovery row. It can help you find a place and its citations; it is not a DataCenterData finding that the facility is distinct or currently operating.
Facility snapshot
- Operator as published
- Microsoft
- Address and locality
- Malaga Alcoa Highway · Malaga · Chelan County · Washington
- Lifecycle status
- reported under construction
- Facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Planned: 288 MW (source-reported; boundary not independently verified)
- Source freshness
- 5 September 2026
- Location precision
- exact
- Source confidence
- confirmed
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-000990
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 · reported proposed
Microsoft acquired 102.5 acres on Malaga Alcoa Highway for $9.2M across three parcels
- 2023-03 · reported permitted
Permits filed for three data center buildings on Malaga Alcoa Highway; Chelan County
- 2023-06 · 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
- 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 1.33.0, 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.
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