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Fayetteville

QTS Data Centers · Fayetteville · 1435 Hwy 54 W, Fayetteville, GA 30214. Every figure below is individually sourced and dated.

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Part of the tracked campus Microsoft Fairwater Atlanta / QTS Fayetteville Campus.

The story of Fayettevilleinherited from campus Microsoft Fairwater Atlanta / QTS Fayetteville Campus
Announced capex
$4.6B
Cooling
Closed-loop direct-to-chip liquid cooling
Grid
other · Grid connected, and deliberately grid-only: the Fairwater design strips on-site generation, UPS and dual-corded distribution out of the building entirely and treats the grid itself as the resiliency layer. Serving it took a new Ashley Park 500/230 kV substation with two autotransformers and two new 230 kV lines into the customer substations. Georgia Power treats those costs as trade secrets, so the roughly $158 million figure in circulation is an outside estimate, not a utility disclosure. Georgia Power has told regulators the wider campus approaches 1,500 MW at full build-out.
GPUs
150K >150,000 NVIDIA GB200 GPUs (Fairwater 1)
Tenant
OpenAI
Land owner
Fayette County Development Authority
Derived
Cost per MW
$3M/MW

Every figure is one row in the ledger below with its source. Derived rows are pure arithmetic on the rows above (not new claims). Absent lines mean the fact isn't on record yet.

In clusterGeorgia(161)

The deal

Inherited from campus Microsoft Fairwater Atlanta / QTS Fayetteville Campus.

utility
Georgia Power / Southern Company · Ashley Park 500/230-kV substation
operator
Microsoft · Fairwater buildings
developer
QTS Data Centers · campus developer, Blackstone-owned
chip supplier
NVIDIA · GPU supplier (GB200/GB300 Blackwell).
financier
Blackstone · Owner of QTS (Blackstone-backed).
land owner
Fayette County Development Authority · Land seller (~$154M, 2022) and incentive grantor.
tenant
OpenAI · Named customer/tenant of the site (Microsoft newsroom).

Financial structure

Inherited from campus Microsoft Fairwater Atlanta / QTS Fayetteville Campus.

QTS green bond tied to Fayetteville campus
$4.6B. ~$4.6B 10-year investment-grade green bond (April 2026). journalist report
Fayette County Development Authority abatement
Ramp schedule: facility pays 10% of tax bill in year 1, +10%/yr, reaching 100% at 10 years; no total dollar cap disclosed. journalist report
Cost of the Ashley Park 500/230 kV substation built to serve the campus
$158M. Utility-side build: substation, two autotransformers and two new 230 kV lines into the customer substations. Georgia Power treats the cost as a trade secret, so this figure is an outside estimate rather than a utility disclosure. journalist report
QTS planned campus investment
up to $1B. Characterized as 'up to $1 billion' / 'billions'. tracker
QTS campus land purchase
$154M. QTS bought the ~615-acre campus from the Fayette County Development Authority (Aug 2022). journalist report

Investment, workforce and specs

Inherited from campus Microsoft Fairwater Atlanta / QTS Fayetteville Campus.

Cooling
Closed-loop direct-to-chip liquid cooling source
GPUs
>150,000 NVIDIA GB200 GPUs (Fairwater 1) source
Permanent jobs
Dozens of technicians (no hard number disclosed) source

Power

Inherited from campus Microsoft Fairwater Atlanta / QTS Fayetteville Campus. Live grid demand and drought overlay only render on the campus page.

Power source
grid
Grid operator
other
Interconnection
Grid connected, and deliberately grid-only: the Fairwater design strips on-site generation, UPS and dual-corded distribution out of the building entirely and treats the grid itself as the resiliency layer. Serving it took a new Ashley Park 500/230 kV substation with two autotransformers and two new 230 kV lines into the customer substations. Georgia Power treats those costs as trade secrets, so the roughly $158 million figure in circulation is an outside estimate, not a utility disclosure. Georgia Power has told regulators the wider campus approaches 1,500 MW at full build-out.
Water
Closed-loop liquid cooling consuming almost zero water; initial fill equivalent to what 20 homes use in a year, no evaporation, ~6-year loop life (Microsoft). Grid-only, no on-site generation and no UPS/gen-sets.

Georgia Power Ashley Park substation + 500 kV line, grid, Under construction. $158M Georgia Power Ashley Park 500/230 kV substation plus 500 kV Ashley Park-Wansley line to serve the campus; grid infrastructure, not on-site generation.

Facility record

operating

Status

hyperscale

Type

QTS Data Centers

Operator

Fayetteville

Location

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Construction evidence

Dated satellite imagery of the site itself, oldest to newest, with the campus milestones that landed in each window. This is what the site looked like from orbit while announcements, permits, and energizations were dated into our ledger, so bare land, grading, and building mass tell their own story alongside the paper trail. Sentinel-2 true color, 10 m resolution, cloud-free scenes; click any frame to expand it.

Delivery paceAnnounced Q1 2025 · live Q4 2025 · 9 mo build

2018-06-04Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2018
2020-09-06Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2020
2022-05-09Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2022
2024-05-28Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2024
2025-09-10Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2025

Dated Sentinel-2 imagery, gated to hand-verified site coordinates. Milestones inherited from campus Microsoft Fairwater Atlanta / QTS Fayetteville Campus. How we source and verify it: satellite construction evidence.

Evidence

Each fact traces to a source. This is what a verified record looks like next to an unsourced directory listing.

  • record: Fayetteville (reported) · source
  • status: operating (reported) · source
  • streetAddress: 1435 Hwy 54 W, Fayetteville, GA 30214 (reported) · source · aggregator source (no live q.com page for this site)

Timeline

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

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Common questions

What is Fayetteville?
Fayetteville is a data center facility record on the DEPLOY registry, in Fayetteville. Every fact on the record is individually sourced and dated.
Who operates Fayetteville?
QTS Data Centers operates Fayetteville, per the sourced record on the DEPLOY registry.
Is Fayetteville operating?
Fayetteville is recorded as operating on the DEPLOY registry. Each figure traces to a source.
How verified is the data on Fayetteville?
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DEPLOY. (2026). Fayetteville: data center facility record. Retrieved September 27, 2026, from https://registry.deploy.report/datacenters/facilities/qts-fayetteville-fayetteville-ga

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