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Microsoft La Porte Data Center Campus

Microsoft La Porte Data Center Campus is an AI data center campus developed by Microsoft in Indiana, La Porte. 0.54 GW of capacity has been announced; none is energized yet. The gap is what this page tracks: what is claimed versus what is actually built, each figure dated and sourced.

Under construction · Microsoft · Private land · MISO · La Porte, Indiana, United States

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Capacity: announced vs energized

Contracted
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Under construction
not recorded
Energized
not recorded

Announced-to-energized gap: 0.54 GW. Every figure below is a single dated, sourced claim. Current best per series resolves by evidence tier, then date. See the methodology.

55th-largest announced of 97 tracked campuses46th percentile announced-to-energized gap≈ 436,000 homes of power at full announced capacity (basis)

Promised online: 2029. 39 months away. Claimed by Microsoft (reported) (source).

Microsoft La Porte Data Center Campus capacity claims
Source
Announced0.54 GW2026-06-01claimedtracker

Key facts

under construction

Lifecycle

0.54 GW

Announced

0 GW

Energized

Microsoft

Developer

United States

Location

MISO

Grid

private land

Land

2

Facilities tracked

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The story of Microsoft La Porte Data Center Campus
Announced capex
$1B
Jobs
200 permanent reported
Derived
Cost per MW
$2M/MW
Cost per job
$5M per permanent job

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 clusterIndiana(86)

The deal

developer
Microsoft · Owner and operator
operator
Microsoft
utility
NIPSCO (Northern Indiana Public Service Company) · Serving utility for power needs

Power

Power source
grid
Grid operator
MISO
Interconnection

The MISO grid demand right now: 62.7 GW (EIA-930, 2026-09-27 10:00). Microsoft La Porte Data Center Campus's announced 0.54 GW would be 0.9% of the grid's current load.

Why here

Microsoft La Porte Data Center Campus sits on private land in Indiana, La Porte. It connects to the MISO grid, draws on grid power. This siting summary is composed from the record's held fields, not speculation; see methodology.

Financial structure

Microsoft La Porte data center investment
$1B. Initial announcement; campus later expanded via ~1,000-acre annexation press release
Announced investment
$1B. Initial announced ~$1 billion, 245,000 sq ft data center on 489 acres in Radius Industrial Park press release

Regulatory paper trail

The filings and rules on record for this site and its jurisdiction, most recent first. Each is a sourced, dated artifact you can follow to the primary document.

NHTSA Recall: Zoox Robotaxi Software Update for Heavy Smoke Visibility (26E044)operational restriction · 2026-07-15 · United States
FCC Proposed Fines Against Drone Companies (July 2026)other · 2026-07-10 · United States
FAA Proposed Rule: Enabling Supersonic Overland Flight (July 2026)operational restriction · 2026-07-02 · United States

Investment, workforce and specs

Permanent jobs
Approximately 200 jobs by end of 2032 source

Facilities at this campus

Timeline

  2. Aug 2026
    party added
    utility: NIPSCO (Northern Indiana Public Service Company)
  3. Sep 2026
    Current: Under construction

Sources

2b763953-2d67-48e5-a533-3ffdc5148bc8 · Tracked with DEPLOY's verified-vs-claimed methodology. Every term is defined in the glossary. Announced numbers are claims, not built capacity.

Head-to-head

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Common questions

What is Microsoft La Porte Data Center Campus?
Microsoft La Porte Data Center Campus is an AI data center campus tracked on the DEPLOY registry, located in La Porte. 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 La Porte Data Center Campus use?
Microsoft La Porte Data Center Campus has 0.54 GW of announced capacity on the DEPLOY registry; no energized capacity is yet recorded. Each figure is individually dated and sourced.
Who is building Microsoft La Porte Data Center Campus?
Microsoft is recorded as a party to Microsoft La Porte Data Center Campus on the DEPLOY registry. The full party list, with each role, is on the record.
Is Microsoft La Porte Data Center Campus operating yet?
As of the most recent verification on the DEPLOY registry, Microsoft La Porte Data Center Campus is under construction. 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 La Porte Data Center Campus?
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.

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Cite this page

DEPLOY. (2026). Microsoft La Porte Data Center Campus: AI data center campus record. Retrieved September 27, 2026, from https://registry.deploy.report/datacenters/microsoft-laporte-indiana

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