Microsoft Tyrone Campus (Project Rita)
Microsoft · Tyrone, GA · United States
Facility record
- Lifecycle
- PermittedSource-reported lifecycle
- Location precision
- approximate
- Address as listed
- Not published
- Coordinates
- 33.494, -84.588
- Serving utility, source-reported
- Not established
- Operational capacity, source-reported
- Not published
- Planned capacity, source-reported
- 96 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
- Proposed
DRI (Development of Regional Impact) application filed; project first surfaced publicly
Underlying source - Permitted
Rezoning approved by Tyrone Town Council
Underlying source - Permitted
Microsoft publicly confirmed the project via Microsoft Local blog; no site plan or building permits filed as of June 2 2026
Underlying source
Source notes
Two-building campus (two 48 MW buildings = 96 MW, ~490,000-500,000 sq ft) plus an on-site substation; codename Project Rita. Part of Microsoft's East US 3 Azure region (planned 2027). Total site ~161 acres (~146.4 in Tyrone + ~14.5 in Fairburn). As of June 2 2026 no site plan or building permits filed. Microsoft requested no tax abatements (none offered). No investment figure disclosed. Coordinates approximate (address-derived; 2044 GA-74). Estimated ~4,000 gallons/day operational water use.
Utility not named in any public filing. Georgia Power is the incumbent Fayette County utility but is not source-confirmed for this project. Microsoft said it will pay for transmission/substation improvements and that costs should not transfer to residential ratepayers.
Sources and provenance
- Microsoft confirms plans for data center in Tyrone, Georgia · source retrieved 2026-07-07
- 96MW data center campus proposed in Tyrone, Georgia · source retrieved 2026-07-07
- Data Center Information - Town of Tyrone, GA · source retrieved 2026-07-07
- Tyrone Datacenter Update - Microsoft Local · source retrieved 2026-07-07
- Microsoft to Build Data Center in Tyrone, Georgia · source retrieved 2026-07-07
- Now it's Tyrone's turn for a big data center project · source retrieved 2026-07-07
Power Wars capture: 2026-11-02. Compute Atlas, CC BY 4.0. Entries are not independently verified by Power Wars unless stated.