Jurisdiction: US — Georgia (Southern/Georgia Power)
Atlanta, GA metro; exact site not disclosed in cited sources, coordinates approximate to Atlanta; second site in Microsoft's Fairwater AI datacenter family, linked to Wisconsin Fairwater via dedicated AI WAN
Methodology prs-v0.1 · computed · trigger: manual
Each factor below contributed to the current score. Contributions are rubric weights from methodology prs-v0.1; every factor cites the record it is derived from.
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| Capital | capital commitment | +30 | Microsoft (investor) | investor role committed $1,800,000,000 (capex undisclosed — coverage unverifiable). |
| Infrastructure | baseline | 70 | Microsoft Fairwater Atlanta | No-adverse-evidence infrastructure baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines). |
| Capital | baseline | 40 | Microsoft Fairwater Atlanta | Capital base before committed-capital evidence (announcement-only anchor region, §B.2.4). |
| Infrastructure | interconnection progress | +15 | Commissioning | Power/interconnection milestone "Commissioning" achieved on 2025-10-01 — largest single health event (§B.2.3). |
| Regulatory | baseline | 70 | Microsoft Fairwater Atlanta | No-adverse-evidence regulatory baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines). |
| Schedule | baseline | 80 | Microsoft Fairwater Atlanta | No-adverse-evidence schedule baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines). |
| Schedule | milestone achieved | +5 | Announcement | Milestone "Announcement" achieved on/ahead of its first announced date (2025-11-12). |
| Schedule | milestone achieved | +5 | Commissioning | Milestone "Commissioning" achieved on/ahead of its first announced date (2025-10-01). |
| Schedule | staleness decay | -25 | Microsoft Fairwater Atlanta | Newest schedule evidence is 2025-11-12 (freshness window 6 months) — score drifts one rubric level toward the stage-default prior of 50 (§B.4: silence is information). |
Commissioning · Actual:
Announcement · Actual:
No active constraint observations recorded against this project.
Every substantive field on this record is backed by a canonical claim from a cited source document, graded on the E1 (strongest) – E5 (weakest) evidence ladder.
Microsoft Source · Nov 12, 2025 · backs: actual date, status
https://news.microsoft.com/source/features/ai/from-wisconsin-to-atlanta-microsoft-connects-datacenters-to-build-its-first-ai-superfactory/
Microsoft Blog · Nov 12, 2025 · backs: actual date
https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2025/11/12/infinite-scale-the-architecture-behind-the-azure-ai-superfactory/
Recent ingested source documents linked to this project via extracted claims or triage mentions, newest first.
· Microsoft Blog · relevance 0.30
· Microsoft Source · relevance 0.85
Data Center Frontier · relevance 0.70
DCD · relevance 0.90