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Microsoft Project Rita (Tyrone)

Microsoft Project Rita (Tyrone)

Permitted
Confirmed

Jurisdiction: US — Georgia (Southern/Georgia Power)

~147 acres on North Highway 74 between Kirkley Road and Tyrone's northern city limits, Fayette County (~30mi SW of Atlanta). Two ~48MW / ~250,000 sq ft buildings + on-site substation. Rezoned March 2024; as of May 2026 no site plan/LDP/building permit filed.

Capacity
96 MW basis: unspecified
GPUs (est.)
Capex
Announced
Target operational

Delivery health score

56.2 /100
56.2/100

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

Schedule

60 /100
60/100

Regulatory

51 /100
51/100

Infrastructure

70 /100
70/100

Capital

40 /100
40/100

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 baseline 40 Microsoft Project Rita (Tyrone) No committed capital evidenced on any entity role — announcement-only anchor region (§B.2.4).
Infrastructure baseline 70 Microsoft Project Rita (Tyrone) No-adverse-evidence infrastructure baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines).
Regulatory baseline 70 Microsoft Project Rita (Tyrone) No-adverse-evidence regulatory baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines).
Regulatory permit granted +6 Utility Approval Permitting milestone "Utility Approval" achieved on 2024-03-28.
Regulatory staleness decay -25 Microsoft Project Rita (Tyrone) Newest regulatory evidence is 2024-03-28 (freshness window 9 months) — score drifts one rubric level toward the stage-default prior of 50 (§B.4: silence is information).
Schedule baseline 80 Microsoft Project Rita (Tyrone) No-adverse-evidence schedule baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines).
Schedule milestone achieved +5 Utility Approval Milestone "Utility Approval" achieved on/ahead of its first announced date (2024-03-28).
Schedule staleness decay -25 Microsoft Project Rita (Tyrone) Newest schedule evidence is 2024-03-28 (freshness window 6 months) — score drifts one rubric level toward the stage-default prior of 50 (§B.4: silence is information).

Milestones

  1. Utility Approval

    Achieved

    Utility approval · Actual:

Constraint observations

No active constraint observations recorded against this project.

Entities & roles

Entity
Role
Ownership
Committed capital
Microsoft
Developer

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. Town of Tyrone, Georgia · backs: actual date, status

    https://www.tyronega.gov/datacenter

  2. Data Center Dynamics · Nov 1, 2023 · backs: capacity mw

    https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/96mw-data-center-campus-proposed-in-tyrone-georgia/

Signals

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

  1. · Data Center Dynamics

  2. Town of Tyrone, Georgia