# Microsoft Fairwater Data Center (Mount Pleasant)

AI data center campus tracked on DEPLOY: announced-vs-energized capacity, each figure dated and sourced.

- **Canonical ID:** 824d3b90-2903-4335-9716-8f73fb969f7a
- **Type:** AI data center campus
- **Location:** Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin, United States
- **Lifecycle state:** partially_energized
- **Announced capacity (GW):** 0.45
- **Energized capacity (GW):** 0.369
- **Announced-to-energized gap (GW):** 0.081

## Capacity ledger (append-only, dated, sourced)

- announced: 0.45 GW · reported · as of 2025-01-01 · https://www.utilitydive.com/news/wisconsin-gas-plant-proposals-test-state-review-process/825885/
- energized: 0.369 GW · reported · as of 2026-04-16 · https://epoch.ai/data/ai-data-centers/directory/microsoft-fairwater-wisconsin
- under_construction: 2.26 GW · claimed · as of 2028-05-13 · https://epoch.ai/data/ai-data-centers/directory/microsoft-fairwater-wisconsin

## Parties

- Microsoft (developer): https://registry.deploy.report/companies/microsoft

## Common questions


**What is Microsoft Fairwater Data Center (Mount Pleasant)?**

Microsoft Fairwater Data Center (Mount Pleasant) is an AI data center campus tracked on the DEPLOY registry, located in Mount Pleasant. DEPLOY records its capacity as a dated, sourced ledger: announced gigawatts versus actually energized gigawatts, never a press-release total.

**How much power will Microsoft Fairwater Data Center (Mount Pleasant) use?**

Microsoft Fairwater Data Center (Mount Pleasant) has 0.45 GW of announced capacity on the DEPLOY registry, of which 0.37 GW is recorded as energized, an announced-to-energized gap of 0.08 GW. Each figure is individually dated and sourced.

**Is Microsoft Fairwater Data Center (Mount Pleasant) operating yet?**

As of the most recent verification on the DEPLOY registry, Microsoft Fairwater Data Center (Mount Pleasant) is partially energized. DEPLOY tracks the lifecycle from announced through energized, so the current state reflects sourced evidence, not the original announcement.

**How verified is the data on Microsoft Fairwater Data Center (Mount Pleasant)?**

A human editor has reviewed this record for the indexed registry. Every capacity figure is an append-only, dated claim resolved to the highest-evidence tier; superseded claims are kept but excluded from the current view.

## Sources

- Microsoft completes construction on first datacenter facility in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin: https://news.microsoft.com/source/2026/06/23/microsoft-completes-construction-on-first-datacenter-facility-in-mount-pleasant-wisconsin/
- Microsoft Fairwater Wisconsin | AI Data Centers: https://epoch.ai/data/ai-data-centers/directory/microsoft-fairwater-wisconsin
- Wisconsin gas plant proposals test state review process: https://www.utilitydive.com/news/wisconsin-gas-plant-proposals-test-state-review-process/825885/
- Inside the world's most powerful AI datacenter: https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2025/09/18/inside-the-worlds-most-powerful-ai-datacenter/

Canonical: https://registry.deploy.report/datacenters/microsoft-fairwater-wisconsin
JSON: https://registry.deploy.report/v1/datacenters/microsoft-fairwater-wisconsin