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Proposed (inferred) Racine County · WI

Microsoft Fairwater Wisconsin

Mount Pleasant, Racine County, Wisconsin

Approximate area

Someone has proposed it. Nothing has been approved and nothing is being built.

Status inferred from agw source doc (Mon, 10 No). No filing states it in as many words.

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The location is approximate, so it is drawn as an area: a circle 500 metres around the point a directory gives. The directory does not say how that point was made, and the radius is our choice, not a measured error. Other campuses on record nearby are drawn around it.
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Status
Proposed (inferred)
Owner
Likely Microsoft
Capacity
369 MW
Location known to
Approximate area
County
Racine County
State
Wisconsin
Electric utility
Wisconsin Electric Power Co
Grid operator
MISO

Location and nearby

Microsoft Fairwater Wisconsin is on record as proposed in Racine County, Wisconsin. A record puts its capacity at 369 MW. 16 other campuses are on record within 25 miles, 3 of them within 5 miles. The nearest is 4.1 mi away, measured between approximate points.

Nearest of each kind: Operating 4.1 mi Proposed 4.8 mi

Nearest campuses on record

What is on record

Owner

Likely Microsoft

A tracker names this operator and cites a source we have not read ourselves, so it is not traced to a record.

What the signal was

  1. cited document names the operator

    microsoft

    Source cited by AI GridWatch for Microsoft Fairwater Wisconsin: https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2025/09/18/inside-the-worlds-most-powerful-ai-datacenter/ · Aug 14, 2026

Filed by: Microsoft

Sources name more than one company here: Microsoft, OpenAI. That usually means a building with tenants. No source we hold says which is the landlord, so we do not guess.

Capacity
369 MW from agw
Diesel generators
No air permit found in the records we collect
Water
Not collected. State water withdrawal permits are not in this build.
Electric utility
Wisconsin Electric Power Co
Also recorded as
Microsoft

How the status changed

  1. Proposed Aug 14, 2026 inferred

    AI GridWatch stage/outcome: operating|; source press

    Source cited by AI GridWatch for Microsoft Fairwater Wisconsin: https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2025/09/18/inside-the-worlds-most-powerful-ai-datacenter/

About this data

Evidence

Primary record

A government filing, a federal permit, an assessor parcel or the operator’s own page.

Location known to

Approximate area

Approximate. Good enough for a neighbourhood, not for a driveway.

Independent sources

1

cited filing. Directories count once between them, because they copy each other.

How we build this

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Where this comes from

2 source records back this page. Each row is a document we retrieved and kept, so a claim can be checked against the original.

Document Role Row Date
Source cited by AI GridWatch for Microsoft Fairwater Wisconsin: https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2025/09/18/inside-the-worlds-most-powerful-ai-datacenter/ US-WI Context url=https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2025/09/18/inside-the-worlds-most-powerful-ai-datacenter/ Aug 14, 2026 last changed on the server
agw_projects tracker export (AI GridWatch (aigridwatch.com), CC BY 4.0.) US Context id=microsoft-fairwater-wisconsin Aug 14, 2026 last changed on the server

AI GridWatch (aigridwatch.com), CC BY 4.0.

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