Updated Jul. 3, 2026

Microsoft Fairwater Atlanta

Fayetteville, Georgia, United States

Microsoft Fairwater Atlanta is an operational AI data center in Fayetteville, GA, USA, with AI chips owned by Microsoft and used by OpenAI (likely) and Microsoft (likely). It hosts an estimated 743k H100-equivalent chips — supported by 636 MW of IT power — at a capital cost of $24.1 B. We estimate that it uses Nvidia B200 chips. The timeline of IT power and compute capacity is based on satellite imagery, our cooling equipment power model, drone imagery, company disclosures, chip availability, and chip efficiency. Built by QTS with Microsoft as the tenant, Fairwater Atlanta likely provides training compute for OpenAI and is disclosed to contain NVIDIA GB200 GPUs.

OWNER Microsoft STATUS Operational USERS OpenAI, Microsoft PROJECT Microsoft AI WAN
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Satellite view of Microsoft Fairwater Atlanta

Satellite imagery

Latest: May 13, 2026 · 3 high-res images
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Scale & specifications

CURRENT COMPUTE

743k H100-eq

1.47e21 8-bit OP/s

CURRENT IT POWER

636 MW

PROJECTED IT POWER

636 MW

CURRENT COST

$24.1 B

PROJECTED COST

$24.1 B

HardwareNvidia B200

CoolingAir-cooled chiller

Buildout

Apr 9, 20230
Apr 9, 2023

Land clearing begins for southern part (Building 1-2)

Oct 14, 2025

Building 1 and 2 are operational. Building 1 looked operational sooner, but the buildings are paired in the Fairwater design. The roof of Building 4 is almost complete, while mechanical equipment is still being installed.

Compute
374kH100-eq
IT Power
321MW
Cost
$12.2B
Feb 13, 2026

Building 4 roof is complete and all mechanical equipment appears to be installed. However, there is still a lot of construction activity around the building.

Compute
374kH100-eq
IT Power
321MW
Cost
$12.2B
May 15, 2026

Building 4 still has some equipment strewn around the perimeter, so we think it is still going through commissioning. Two new buildings at the campus have shells underway, but we don't know if Microsoft is the tenant for those.

Compute
374kH100-eq
IT Power
321MW
Cost
$12.2B
Jun 14, 2026

Building 3 and 4 are operational.

Compute
743kH100-eq
IT Power
636MW
Cost
$24.1B

Sources

  1. 2023 Air Permit application
  2. YouTube video with aerial views
  3. OpenAI article mentioning they use Microsoft's Fairwater supercomputers
  4. Bloomberg article

Read more about our methodology.