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Facility snapshot
- Operator as published
- Microsoft
- Address and locality
- Mount Pleasant · Racine County · Wisconsin
- Lifecycle status
- reported operational
- Facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Planned: 1,000 MW (source-reported; boundary not independently verified)
- Source freshness
- 14 September 2026
- Location precision
- exact
- Source confidence
- reported
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-000991
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
- 2024 · reported proposed
Site reported as part of Microsoft's $80B global AI data center investment plan
- 2025 · reported under construction
Construction active; Racine County site confirmed
- 2026-08-04 · reported operational
Microsoft announced June 23, 2026 that its first Fairwater datacenter facility in Mount Pleasant is fully operational (equipment came online April 2026), with nearly 550 employees on site; a second adjacent facility remains under construction (targeted 2028).
Sources and attribution
- Microsoft announces $3.3 billion investment in Wisconsin (Mount Pleasant campus) · Microsoft
- Microsoft data center coming to Racine County, Wisconsin — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel · Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
- Made in Wisconsin: the world's most powerful AI datacenter · Microsoft On the Issues
- Microsoft's Wisconsin AI Data Center Campus Now Fully Operational · Data Center Knowledge
- Local leaders see data centers as revenue boon, but critics say subsidy programs undermine those efforts · Wisconsin Public Radio
- Microsoft in Racine County · Racine County Economic Development Corp
- Microsoft says it hired around 375 people for its Mount Pleasant data center · Wisconsin Public Radio
- Microsoft completes construction on first datacenter facility in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin · Microsoft
- Microsoft finishes construction of Mount Pleasant data center, plans for more · Wisconsin Public Radio
- Microsoft's $7.3 Billion AI Data Center Just Caught a Nasty Lawsuit From Furious Neighbors · Futurism
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.33.0, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID microsoft-mount-pleasant-wi. 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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