Jurisdiction: US — Rest of US (composite)
315-acre Fairwater campus, Mount Pleasant, Racine County, Wisconsin; second same-scale datacenter and further $13.3bn expansion proposed on adjacent sites
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 | +50 | Microsoft (investor) | investor role committed $7,300,000,000 (coverage 100% of $7,300,000,000 capex). |
| Infrastructure | baseline | 70 | Microsoft Fairwater (Mount Pleasant) | No-adverse-evidence infrastructure baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines). |
| Capital | baseline | 40 | Microsoft Fairwater (Mount Pleasant) | Capital base before committed-capital evidence (announcement-only anchor region, §B.2.4). |
| Regulatory | baseline | 70 | Microsoft Fairwater (Mount Pleasant) | No-adverse-evidence regulatory baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines). |
| Regulatory | permit granted | +6 | Utility Approval | Permitting milestone "Utility Approval" achieved on 2026-01-31. |
| Schedule | baseline | 80 | Microsoft Fairwater (Mount Pleasant) | 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 (2025-09-18). |
| Schedule | milestone achieved | +5 | Utility Approval | Milestone "Utility Approval" achieved on/ahead of its first announced date (2026-01-31). |
Announcement · Actual:
Energization · Expected:
Utility approval · Actual:
Energization · Expected:
No active constraint observations recorded against this project.
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| Microsoft | 100% | $7.3B | |
| Microsoft | — | — | |
| Microsoft | — | — | |
| We Energies (WEC Energy Group) | — | — | |
| We Energies (WEC Energy Group) | — | — | |
| Nvidia | — | — | |
| National Grid Renewables | — | — |
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 On the Issues · Sep 18, 2025 · backs: actual date, capex usd, expected date
https://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2025/09/18/made-in-wisconsin-the-worlds-most-powerful-ai-datacenter/
w.media · backs: actual date
https://w.media/microsoft-gains-approval-for-15-new-data-centers-in-wisconsin/
Epoch AI · backs: expected date
https://epoch.ai/data-insights/fairwater-power-usage
Tom's Hardware · Sep 18, 2025 · backs: status
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/microsoft-announces-worlds-most-powerful-ai-data-center-315-acre-site-to-house-hundreds-of-thousands-of-nvidia-gpus-and-enough-fiber-to-circle-the-earth-4-5-times
Recent ingested source documents linked to this project via extracted claims or triage mentions, newest first.
· Racine County Eye · relevance 0.95
· Microsoft On the Issues · relevance 0.85
· Tom's Hardware · relevance 0.30
· PR Newswire · relevance 0.70