Microsoft · Fayetteville, Georgia

Microsoft Fairwater Atlanta

859MW

The power of 700,000 US homes.

Drawing power since Oct 2025.

H100-equivalents: 769K
Capital cost: $24.1B
Chips: B200
Users: OpenAI, Microsoft
Project: Microsoft AI WAN
Energy: Georgia Power

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Jesse Hawkins, “Microsoft Fairwater Atlanta · The AI buildout”, jesseahawkins.com, data retrieved 22 Oct 2026. https://jesseahawkins.com/buildout/microsoft-fairwater-atlanta/. Data: Epoch AI, “AI data centers”, CC BY 4.0.

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@misc{hawkins2026buildoutmicrosoftfairwateratlanta,
  author = {Hawkins, Jesse},
  title = {{Microsoft Fairwater Atlanta · The AI buildout}},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://jesseahawkins.com/buildout/microsoft-fairwater-atlanta/}},
  note = {Data: Epoch AI, ``AI data centers'', CC BY 4.0, retrieved 2026-10-22}
}

The data · Epoch AI

Epoch AI, 'AI data centers'. Published online at epoch.ai. Retrieved from 'https://epoch.ai/data/ai-data-centers' [online resource]. CC BY 4.0.

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Power over time

facility power · 5 milestones

Every milestone

9 Apr 2023 — Land clearing begins for southern part (Building 1-2)
14 Oct 2025 433 MW Building 1 and 2 are operational. Building 1 looked operational sooner, but the buildings are paired in the Fairwater design. The roof of Building 4 is almost complete, while mechanical equipment is still being installed.
13 Feb 2026 433 MW Building 4 roof is complete and all mechanical equipment appears to be installed. However, there is still a lot of construction activity around the building.
15 May 2026 433 MW Building 4 still has some equipment strewn around the perimeter, so we think it is still going through commissioning. Two new buildings at the campus have shells underway, but we don't know if Microsoft is the tenant for those.
14 Jun 2026 859 MW Building 3 and 4 are operational.

Gas made 49% of the power on this site's grid

net generation by fuel · Oct 2025 to Sep 2026

Southern Company Services, Inc. - Trans SOCO · balancing authority

Gas 49%
Coal 18%
Nuclear 25%
Wind 0%
Solar 5%
Hydro 2%
Other 1%

The grid of the utilities that serve Fayette County, GA. Each grid is a balancing authority. Generation only; imports are excluded. Every grid behind an AI site.

EIA lists no power plant of 1 MW or more in Fayette County

power plants in Fayette County · EIA-860M, September 2026

EIA lists no generator of 1 MW or more in service in Fayette County. Since January 2023: 0 MW added, 0 MW retired. A plant in the same county does not mean it feeds the site. Power plants near every AI site.

Sources

selected by Epoch AI

Data: Epoch AI, “AI data centers”, CC BY 4.0, retrieved 22 Oct 2026. Facility power adds cooling and other overhead to the IT power the servers draw. Placed at the centre of Fayetteville. Grid: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Hourly Electric Grid Monitor (Form EIA-930), public domain, retrieved 16 Oct 2026; utilities by county from Form EIA-861 and the U.S. Census Bureau Geocoder, public domain. Power plants: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Form EIA-860M, public domain, inventory as of September 2026. All sources.