Microsoft Fairwater Atlanta

Microsoft

United States

Microsoft AI WAN

1435 Hwy 54 W, Fayetteville, GA 30214

Current Power

859 MW

H100-equivalents

741,313

Capital Cost

$23.49B

Energy Provider

Georgia Power

Site Location

Tenants / Users

OpenAI #speculative

Construction Timeline · 4 events

2023-04-092026-05-142026-05-14

Status

Building 3 and 4 are operational.

Power (MW)

859.0

IT Power (MW)

613.0

H100-equiv

741,313

Cap-Ex ($B)

$23.49

Buildings Operational

4.0

Water (MGD)

—

Notes

Microsoft Fairwater Atlanta is a QTS-built data center with Microsoft as a tenant, possibly for the purpose of providing compute to OpenAI. We estimate compute for it primarily based on satellite and aerial imagery of the chillers.

Sources

Calculations sheet

- [2023 Air Permit application](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1p7aY9syz319IcEuyukgIIvzmhTNKRS6p/view?usp=sharing) - [YouTube video with aerial views](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44eWesI-174) - [Semianalysis presentation](https://youtu.be/hobvps-H38o?si=wsAcRtDFG4Df4_7z&t=901) - [Bloomberg article](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2024-12-08/georgia-s-blackstone-backed-qts-data-center-hits-resistance-over-ai-power-needs)

Data: Epoch AI · Frontier Data Centers (CC-BY)