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Microsoft Durand Avenue Campus (Mount Pleasant expansion)

Microsoft · Mount Pleasant. Every figure below is individually sourced and dated.

Track Microsoft Durand Avenue Campus (Mount Pleasant expansion)

Part of the tracked campus Microsoft Fairwater Data Center (Mount Pleasant).

The story of Microsoft Durand Avenue Campus (Mount Pleasant expansion)inherited from campus Microsoft Fairwater Data Center (Mount Pleasant)
Announced capex
$3.3B
Tenant
Microsoft / OpenAI
Derived
Cost per MW
$7M/MW

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In clusterWisconsin(43)

The deal

Inherited from campus Microsoft Fairwater Data Center (Mount Pleasant).

tenant
Microsoft / OpenAI · Self-tenant AI supercompute (Azure).
chip supplier
NVIDIA · GB200/B200-class GPUs (Epoch cites B200).
utility
We Energies · Regulated monopoly; sole grid power supplier, building new gas generation.
grid operator
MISO · We Energies operates within MISO.
developer
Microsoft · Owner-operator; Fairwater flagship AI datacenter on former Foxconn land.

Financial structure

Inherited from campus Microsoft Fairwater Data Center (Mount Pleasant).

Microsoft Mount Pleasant campus investment (announced)
$3.3B. Initial announced investment; Epoch estimates ~$14B deployed to date and ~$85B at full buildout. press release

Power

Inherited from campus Microsoft Fairwater Data Center (Mount Pleasant). Live grid demand and drought overlay only render on the campus page.

Power source
grid
Grid operator
MISO
Interconnection
Water
Closed-loop liquid cooling filled once at construction with no ongoing water draw and no evaporation across about 90% of capacity; the remaining ~10% uses outdoor-air cooling and taps water only during peak summer heat. Microsoft compares annual water use to a single restaurant.

We Energies Oak Creek gas plant (5 simple-cycle turbines), 1.10 GW gas, Permitted. 1,100 MW proposed at the Oak Creek coal site; first turbine delivery May 2026, operations winter 2027-summer 2028.

We Energies Paris gas plant (Kenosha County), 0.13 GW gas, Permitted. 128 MW gas plant near Paris, WI; part of ~$2.77B of PSC-approved generation/transmission justified on Microsoft load.

Facility record

planned

Status

hyperscale

Type

Microsoft

Operator

Mount Pleasant

Location

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Evidence

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  • record: Microsoft Durand Avenue Campus (Mount Pleasant expansion) (reported) · source
  • status: planned (reported) · source

Timeline

  1. Aug 2026
    First recorded
    Added to the DEPLOY registry as a sourced facility record
  2. Sep 2026
    Current: planned

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Common questions

What is Microsoft Durand Avenue Campus (Mount Pleasant expansion)?
Microsoft Durand Avenue Campus (Mount Pleasant expansion) is a data center facility record on the DEPLOY registry, in Mount Pleasant. Every fact on the record is individually sourced and dated.
Who operates Microsoft Durand Avenue Campus (Mount Pleasant expansion)?
Microsoft operates Microsoft Durand Avenue Campus (Mount Pleasant expansion), per the sourced record on the DEPLOY registry.
Is Microsoft Durand Avenue Campus (Mount Pleasant expansion) operating?
Microsoft Durand Avenue Campus (Mount Pleasant expansion) is recorded as planned on the DEPLOY registry. Each figure traces to a source.
How verified is the data on Microsoft Durand Avenue Campus (Mount Pleasant expansion)?
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DEPLOY. (2026). Microsoft Durand Avenue Campus (Mount Pleasant expansion): data center facility record. Retrieved September 27, 2026, from https://registry.deploy.report/datacenters/facilities/microsoft-mount-pleasant-wi-durand-avenue-campus

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