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Reported geography
Source-reported location for Microsoft Tyrone Campus (Project Rita).
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Facility snapshot
- Operator as published
- Microsoft
- Address and locality
- Tyrone · Fayette County · Georgia
- Source-reported status
- permitted
- Facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Planned: 96 MW (source-reported; boundary not independently verified)
- Source freshness
- 7 July 2026
- Location precision
- exact
- Source confidence
- confirmed
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-001006
What the source record says
Two-building campus (two 48 MW buildings = 96 MW, ~490,000-500,000 sq ft) plus an on-site substation; codename Project Rita. Part of Microsoft's East US 3 Azure region (planned 2027). Total site ~161 acres (~146.4 in Tyrone + ~14.5 in Fairburn). As of June 2 2026 no site plan or building permits filed. Microsoft requested no tax abatements (none offered). No investment figure disclosed. Coordinates approximate (address-derived; 2044 GA-74). Estimated ~4,000 gallons/day operational water use.
Any MW value is reproduced as source-reported context. Its measurement boundary is not established consistently enough for comparison. Unknown is not zero.
Status history supplied by the source
- 2023-11 · source-reported proposed
DRI (Development of Regional Impact) application filed; project first surfaced publicly
- 2024-03-28 · source-reported permitted
Rezoning approved by Tyrone Town Council
- 2026-05-05 · source-reported permitted
Microsoft publicly confirmed the project via Microsoft Local blog; no site plan or building permits filed as of June 2 2026
Sources and attribution
- Microsoft confirms plans for data center in Tyrone, Georgia · Data Center Dynamics
- 96MW data center campus proposed in Tyrone, Georgia · Data Center Dynamics
- Data Center Information - Town of Tyrone, GA · Town of Tyrone
- Tyrone Datacenter Update - Microsoft Local · Microsoft
- Microsoft to Build Data Center in Tyrone, Georgia · Baxtel
- Now it's Tyrone's turn for a big data center project · The Citizen
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.33.0, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID microsoft-tyrone-ga. Filtered to data-center records in the 50 U.S. states; selected fields normalized for search and display; DataCenterData directory IDs added.
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