Who owns Microsoft Fairwater Atlanta?

Microsoft Fairwater Atlanta is owned and operated by Microsoft Corporation.

How much power does Microsoft Fairwater Atlanta use?

Microsoft Fairwater Atlanta has a reported power capacity of 859 MW.

Has Microsoft Fairwater Atlanta had environmental violations?

As of the latest EPA ECHO sync, no enforcement actions are on record for Microsoft Fairwater Atlanta.

Where is Microsoft Fairwater Atlanta located?

Microsoft Fairwater Atlanta is in FAYETTEVILLE, Fayette County, GA.

Mapped (unverified)hyperscale

Microsoft Fairwater Atlanta

Q: What do data center tax breaks cost in Georgia?

Georgia reported $474.2M in High-Technology Data Center Equipment Sales and Use Tax Exemption (O.C.G.A. § 48-8-3(68.1)) for FY2025 (Georgia Department of Audits and Accounts (DOAA); economic analysis by UGA Carl Vinson Institute of Government). That is a statewide program figure, not attributable to one site.

1435 STATE RTE 54, FAYETTEVILLE, GA, 30214 · FAYETTEVILLE, Fayette County, GA

Source: Primary source

Microsoft Fairwater Atlanta is a mapped data center in Fayette County, GA, operated by Microsoft Corporation. DataCentersExposed has documented 859 MW of reported power capacity at this site.

Reporting by Eric Keller · Updated Jun 13, 2026

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Real parent

Microsoft Corporation

Operator

Microsoft Corporation

Power

859 MW

Utility

Coweta-Fayette El Member Corp

Grid

SOCO

Attribution & capacity confidence:highprimary source

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Most sites are mapped — located but awaiting a second source. How we verify

Dot size = disclosed capacity (MW). Smallest = undisclosed, not small.

Overview

source: link

Microsoft Fairwater Atlanta — frontier AI data center campus tracked by Epoch AI, operated by Microsoft. Estimated capital cost ~$24.1B (2025 USD). Located from Epoch AI's Frontier Data Centers dataset (CC-BY 4.0); operational status not independently verified.

Operator chain

Ultimate parent
Microsoft Corporation
Files as
Microsoft Corporation
This facility
Microsoft Fairwater Atlanta

Known aliases: Microsoft Fairwater Wisconsin · Microsoft Fairwater Atlanta

In the news

source: Google News

Tax breaks & subsidies

source: Good Jobs First / GASB 77

These tax breaks are recorded to Microsoft Corporation (the operator/parent) and may cover this or other sites — no state names the recipient at the facility level.

Dollar value not disclosed for these records.

Texas Qualifying Large Data Center Project Exemption$0
State of Texas · granted 2024 · term — yr · source
Texas Qualifying Large Data Center Project Exemption$0
State of Texas · granted 2023 · term — yr · source
Qualified Data Center Sales Tax Exemption$0
State of Wisconsin · granted 2023 · term — yr · source
Texas Qualifying Large Data Center Project Exemption$0
State of Texas · granted 2022 · term — yr · source
Texas Qualifying Data Center Exemption$0
State of Texas · granted 2021 · term — yr · source
Texas Qualifying Large Data Center Project Exemption$0
State of Texas · granted 2015 · term — yr · source
Texas Qualifying Data Center Exemption$0
State of Texas · granted 2013 · term — yr · source
Texas Qualifying Data Center Exemption$0
State of Texas · granted 2013 · term — yr · source

Statewide cost of this incentive

Georgia reported $474.2M in High-Technology Data Center Equipment Sales and Use Tax Exemption (O.C.G.A. § 48-8-3(68.1)) for FY2025 (Georgia Department of Audits and Accounts (DOAA); economic analysis by UGA Carl Vinson Institute of Government). Program-wide, not attributable to this site.

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Water use

Modeled estimate~17.8M gpd

Direct (onsite cooling)

~8.7M gpd

Indirect (its electricity)

~9.1M gpd

No measured record exists, so this is a low-confidence model from 859 MW (disclosed IT power): 2 L/kWh cooling (hot climate) + 0.55 gal/kWh embedded in SOCO grid mix. How we estimate. Have a utility document? Send it and we'll replace this with the real figure.

EPA permits & violations

source: EPA ECHO

No reported violations as of last sync.

Air quality near this site

source: AirNow

PM2.5

Moderate

Good

PM10

Good

Air Quality Index from the nearest AirNow reporting area (Atlanta), as of 2026-06-10. Regional context — not this facility's own emissions.

Who lives nearby

source: Census ACS 2023

Median household income

$87K

People of color

57%

Below poverty

Tract population

6,391

Demographics of the census tract this facility sits in (American Community Survey 5-year estimates). Environmental-justice context for who bears the local impacts.

Nearest school

source: HIFLD / NCES

The nearest public school, Cleveland Elementary School in Fayetteville, is 0.7 mi from this site (419 students). 2 public schools sit within a mile of the site.

Schools are sensitive receptors for the noise, backup-generator exhaust, and traffic a large data center brings. Straight-line distance to the nearest public school (HIFLD/NCES, US public schools only).

Hearings timeline

No public-hearing records linked to this site yet. We surface planning-commission and board-of-supervisors dates when a record names a facility. If you know of a hearing on this site, tell us.