Overview
- Microsoft announced Tuesday that construction on its first Mount Pleasant facility is complete and the Fairwater datacenter is fully operational.
- The site currently employs nearly 550 full-time workers and Microsoft plus its contractors are actively hiring to support operations.
- Work on a second, adjacent datacenter is under way with foundations, steel and utilities being installed and a scheduled completion in 2028 that should raise campus employment to about 800 full-time workers.
- Microsoft says it spent nearly $4.7 billion on hyperscale construction in Wisconsin through 2028, directly purchased from 29 businesses across 11 counties, and relied on roughly 10,000 construction workers during the build.
- Microsoft frames the project as part of a ‘Community-First AI Infrastructure’ push that could deepen local supplier ties and long-term jobs while prompting scrutiny in some Wisconsin communities over data centers’ energy and water use.