Data center project · Racine County, Wisconsin
Microsoft Fairwater datacenter, Mount Pleasant (first facility)
Operating · Microsoft's first Wisconsin datacenter, on land once set aside for Foxconn, is operating and is described by the company as its Fairwater AI supercomputer. Also known as: Fairwater.
- Status
- Operating · as of June 23, 2026
- Location
- Northwest corner of Highway 195 and 90th Street, Village of Mount Pleasant (former Foxconn land) · Racine County
- Status note
- Microsoft said the first facility was fully operational after equipment came online in April 2026.
- Power
- Not reported
Microsoft has not given a figure for this building alone; it estimated about 900 MW for the first two Mount Pleasant facilities combined. Not a backup-generator figure. - Land
- 315 acres
- Investment
- $3.3 billion announced in May 2024 (after an initial $1 billion plan in 2023); Microsoft estimates $4.7 billion of local hyperscale construction spending from 2024 through 2028
- Developer and team
- Microsoft
- End user
- Microsoft (AI training supercomputer)
- Utility
- We Energies
- Water
- Racine city documents released in September 2025 put Microsoft's Lake Michigan water use at as much as 2.8 million gallons in 2026, rising to as much as 8.4 million gallons with planned expansions; released after Midwest Environmental Advocates sued Racine for the records on behalf of Milwaukee Riverkeeper
- Incentives
- WPR reported in November 2023 that officials said the land deal carried no new public financial incentives or infrastructure; Microsoft promised the property would be assessed at no less than $1.4 billion as of Jan. 1, 2028, on top of Foxconn's guarantee, which officials said could let the village close its Foxconn-era Tax Incremental District 5 early. The village said in September 2026 that its 2023 development agreement does provide annual incentives of up to $5 million, paid from TID 5 property taxes, and that Microsoft would redirect them to the village (about $4.9 million) and the Racine County Economic Development Corp. (about $100,000).
- Evidence
- Primary public records
- Size class
- 50 MW or more (tracker scope)
Updates, newest first
- Sept. 28, 2026 The village said Microsoft had qualified for its annual incentive of up to $5 million and would send the money back to the village and the county economic development corporation, to be used for tax relief and capital costs. (Village of Mount Pleasant (release via Urban Milwaukee), Sept. 28, 2026; WPR, Sept. 29, 2026)
- June 23, 2026 Microsoft announced construction was complete and the facility fully operational, with nearly 550 full-time employees on site. (Microsoft Source, June 23, 2026)
- Sept. 18, 2025 Microsoft said the first facility would finish in 2026 with about 500 workers and announced a second facility; Racine released water-use estimates the day before. (BizTimes Milwaukee, Sept. 18, 2025)
- Nov. 13, 2023 Mount Pleasant officials described a deal for Microsoft to buy more than 1,000 acres of former Foxconn land with a $1.4 billion minimum value guarantee and no new public incentives. (WPR, Nov. 13, 2023)
Conflicts and open questions
- A noise lawsuit by residents in July 2026 was summarized by Baxtel; the filing itself was not pulled.
- The terms of Racine's Lake Michigan diversion approval that supply the campus were not reviewed.
- The 2023 WPR report said the deal included no public financial incentives, while the village's September 2026 release says the 2023 agreement provides annual incentives of up to $5 million; both are shown. The agreement itself was not pulled.
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