Jan 31, 2026 | Posted by Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji
Microsoft has received approval to establish a further 15 data centers in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin. The additional 15 data center buildings will be located on land near Microsoft's existing data center campus that was previously slated to be used for a Foxconn manufacturing site.
The scale of the Foxconn project did not meet expectations, leaving the village with land it had purchased without a customer. Microsoft will now utilize that stranded property. The company wants to construct nine data centers, each measuring nearly 580,000 sq ft (53,884 sqm). Directly north of that area, a second site will have six data centers, each just over 568,000 sq ft (52,770 sqm).
The company revealed in September 2025 that it planned to invest a further $4bn over the next three years on top of the $3.3 billion already spent on "Project Fairwater" in the village. The existing Fairwater site spans 315 acres and comprises three large buildings with a combined 1.2 million sq ft (111,483 sqm) under roofs. Construction required 46.6 miles (74.9km) of deep foundation piles, 26.5 million pounds of structural steel, 120 miles (193km) of medium-voltage underground cable, and 72.6 miles (116.8km) of mechanical piping.
