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QTS Fayetteville Campus (Project Excalibur)

QTS Fayetteville Campus (Project Excalibur)

Construction
Confirmed

Jurisdiction: US — Georgia (Southern/Georgia Power)

615-acre Main Campus along GA-54, Fayetteville, Fayette County (~30mi SW of Atlanta) + 313-acre East Campus expansion (928 acres total). Up to 16 buildings / 6.6M+ sq ft; 4 operational + 5 under construction (May 2026); ~8,000 peak construction workers. CAMPUS/developer record — Microsoft's Fairwater buildings inside this campus have their own record (microsoft-fairwater-atlanta).

Capacity
GPUs (est.)
Capex
Announced
Target operational

Delivery health score

56 /100
56/100

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

Schedule

60 /100
60/100

Regulatory

70 /100
70/100

Infrastructure

60 /100
60/100

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 QTS Fayetteville Campus (Project Excalibur) No committed capital evidenced on any entity role — announcement-only anchor region (§B.2.4).
Infrastructure baseline 70 QTS Fayetteville Campus (Project Excalibur) No-adverse-evidence infrastructure baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines).
Infrastructure interconnection progress +15 Commissioning Power/interconnection milestone "Commissioning" achieved on 2025-10-01 — largest single health event (§B.2.3).
Infrastructure staleness decay -25 QTS Fayetteville Campus (Project Excalibur) Newest infrastructure evidence is 2025-10-01 (freshness window 9 months) — score drifts one rubric level toward the stage-default prior of 50 (§B.4: silence is information).
Regulatory baseline 70 QTS Fayetteville Campus (Project Excalibur) No-adverse-evidence regulatory baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines).
Schedule baseline 80 QTS Fayetteville Campus (Project Excalibur) No-adverse-evidence schedule baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines).
Schedule milestone achieved +5 Commissioning Milestone "Commissioning" achieved on/ahead of its first announced date (2025-10-01).
Schedule staleness decay -25 QTS Fayetteville Campus (Project Excalibur) Newest schedule evidence is 2025-10-01 (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:

Constraint observations

No active constraint observations recorded against this project.

Entities & roles

Entity
Role
Ownership
Committed capital
QTS
Developer
Microsoft
Anchor Tenant

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. Atlanta Journal-Constitution · May 1, 2026 · backs: actual date, status

    https://www.ajc.com/business/2026/05/the-data-center-boom-is-transforming-georgia-some-residents-could-lose-their-land/

Signals

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

  1. · The Citizen

  2. · Atlanta Journal-Constitution

  3. · Data Center Dynamics