Sites / WI / Racine
Fairwater (Mount Pleasant campus)
Status: operational · Confidence: medium · Operational: 2026-05
Facts
| Operator | Microsoft (hyperscaler) |
|---|---|
| Location | Mount Pleasant, Racine, WI |
| Building area | 1200000 sq ft |
| Buildings | 3 |
| Investment | $7000000000 |
| First recorded | 2026-07-05 |
| Last updated | 2026-07-05 |
Signal notes
First facility (1,200,000 sqft across three buildings) fully operational May 2026 — equipment online spring 2026, publicly announced complete June 23-24 2026. Second facility under construction, completion expected 2028. Investment $3.3B first facility + $4B second (=$7B+). MW not disclosed ('hundreds of thousands' of Nvidia GPUs, closed-loop liquid cooling).
Sources
- Microsoft completes first data center in Mount Pleasant — The Daily Reporter, 2026-06-24
- Made in Wisconsin: The world's most powerful AI datacenter — Microsoft, 2025-09-18
Signals
Raw observations behind this record (5):
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