Microsoft Fairwater Atlanta (Azure AI Superfactory)
Microsoft · Fayetteville, GA · United States
Facility record
- Lifecycle
- OperationalSource-reported lifecycle
- Location precision
- approximate
- Address as listed
- Not published
- Coordinates
- 33.4487, -84.4549
- Serving utility, source-reported
- Georgia Power
- Operational capacity, source-reported
- Not published
- Planned capacity, source-reported
- 1500 MW
- Source record updated
- 2026-10-22
Source-reported capacity; not metered consumption. Review underlying documents and notes. Planned capacity may include future phases and is not added to operational capacity here. The source may use facility, grid-feed or IT capacity definitions; consult the linked documents.
Coordinate precision is a source label, not an independent parcel survey. A marker does not confirm utility territory or establish an effect on residential bills.
Reported lifecycle history
- Operational
Microsoft's Atlanta Fairwater AI datacenter began operation in October 2025 — the second in the Fairwater family; two-story, no UPS/gensets
Underlying source
Source notes
615-acre, up-to-13-building QTS-built campus on Hwy 54W near Fayetteville, Fayette County (Microsoft's materials say 'Atlanta'). Began operation Oct 2025 as Fairwater 2 — a 'multi-gigawatt' AI campus. ~1,500 MW is the anticipated ultimate Georgia Power load across all buildings (planned figure; ~433 MW cited as initially online). Distinct from Microsoft's smaller Tyrone, GA campus. Two-story design with no UPS or backup generators. Coordinates are the Fayetteville area centroid. Microsoft has not disclosed tenant capex for the Fairwater Fayetteville space; the ~$1B/$6.5B figures are QTS developer build-out estimates for the full multi-tenant campus, and the widely-cited $14.5M abatement / $1.8B / $75M figures attach to different Microsoft/Fulton-County sites (the $75M was FCDA land-sale proceeds, not a subsidy to QTS) -> no investment figure is recorded.
Two-story design with no UPS or backup generators (DCD, Oct 2025) — no on-site generation. Microsoft states Fairwater uses improved closed-loop cooling that 'consumes almost zero water in its operation.' Georgia Power 2025 IRP testimony cites the QTS Fayetteville campus as a single load of just under 1,500 MW at full build-out.
Sources and provenance
- From Wisconsin to Atlanta, Microsoft connects datacenters to build its first AI superfactory · source retrieved 2026-07-07
- Microsoft launches Atlanta Fairwater data center, two stories, no UPS or gen sets · source retrieved 2026-07-07
- Microsoft debuts AI 'superfactory' data center south of Atlanta · source retrieved 2026-07-08
- Behind Fayette's QTS water controversy: a missed meter, 8,000 workers · source retrieved 2026-07-08
- Microsoft Fairwater Atlanta: a grid-only gigawatt AI data center · source retrieved 2026-07-08
- Georgia data center boom: what it's like to have one in your community · source retrieved 2026-07-08
- Incentives & tax rates · source retrieved 2026-07-08
Power Wars capture: 2026-11-02. Compute Atlas, CC BY 4.0. Entries are not independently verified by Power Wars unless stated.