May 05, 2026 | Posted by Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji
Microsoft has confirmed it is behind a planned data center project in Tyrone, Georgia. In a blog post, the company said it will host a community information session on May 19 to discuss key aspects of the development, including energy use, water and sustainability, construction timelines, design, community investment, and job creation. Tyrone is located in Fayette County within the Atlanta metropolitan area.
While this is the first time Microsoft has acknowledged the Tyrone data center project on its own website—previously only referencing plans for Douglasville, Palmetto, and East Point, all near Atlanta—the development has been known locally for several months. Earlier this year, The Citizen reported that Microsoft received zoning approval to build a data center on North Highway 74 between Kirkley Road and the northern city limits. The 147-acre site will host two data center buildings totaling 500,000 sq ft (46,450 sqm).
The project has been underway since November 2023, with a request to annex the site submitted in March 2024. Georgia is already home to one of Microsoft’s “Fairwater” sites—a large-scale AI data center—which launched in November 2025. A second Fairwater facility in Wisconsin went live last month. In December 2025, Microsoft also announced plans for a new cloud region in Atlanta, Georgia, expected to launch in 2027. Known as East US 3, the region was first revealed in 2021.
The company is also known to be developing a site in Fulton County, outside Atlanta, having broken ground in July 2024. Microsoft is additionally progressing two other projects on the outskirts of the city, in East Point (Fulton County) and Douglasville (Douglas County). All three developments are expected to form part of the East US 3 cloud region.
