Compute Institute
Ratings for the physical buildout of AI
Microsoft Fairwater Atlanta

Microsoft Fairwater Atlanta

Operating
Confirmed

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

Capacity
GPUs (est.)
Capex
Announced
Target operational

Delivery health score

74 /100
74/100

Methodology prs-v0.1 · computed · trigger: manual

Schedule

65 /100
65/100

Regulatory

70 /100
70/100

Infrastructure

85 /100
85/100

Capital

70 /100
70/100

Why this score — factor breakdown

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.

Dimension
Factor
Contribution
Cites
Narrative
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).

Milestones

  1. Commissioning

    Achieved

    Commissioning · Actual:

  2. Announcement

    Achieved

    Announcement · Actual:

Constraint observations

No active constraint observations recorded against this project.

Entities & roles

Entity
Role
Ownership
Committed capital
Microsoft
Investor
100% $1.8B
Microsoft
Operator
Microsoft
Owner
Nvidia
Chip Supplier

Sources & citations

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.

  1. 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/

  2. 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/

Signals

Recent ingested source documents linked to this project via extracted claims or triage mentions, newest first.

  1. · Microsoft Blog · relevance 0.30

  2. · Microsoft Source · relevance 0.85

  3. Data Center Frontier · relevance 0.70

  4. DCD · relevance 0.90