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title: "Fairwater Wisconsin (Microsoft), Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin, US — campus ledger — The AI Compute Race — DRYBURGH · The Compute Economy"
source: https://dryburgh.com/vol1/ledger/fairwater-wisconsin
description: "Fairwater Wisconsin: missed. 369 MW evidenced of 2,263 MW announced or estimated, end of August 2026 reading; operations promised by 31 March 2026."
---

# Fairwater Wisconsin (Microsoft), Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin, US

Microsoft

Fairwater Wisconsin (Microsoft; Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin, US) was promised operations by 31 March 2026; at the end-of-August 2026 reading the public record evidences 369 MW of IT load against 2,263 MW announced or estimated. The book’s verdict: missed, if ‘early 2026’ meant the first quarter (the book counts it as a miss).

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Announced or estimated (IT load) 2,263 MW

Evidenced power (IT load), end of August 2026 369 MW

The book’s verdict Missed, if ‘early 2026’ meant the first quarter (the book counts it as a miss)

The ledger’s reading is the end of August 2026: the promises and the states as they stood then. Each row’s evidence carries its own date, printed on it.

The promise and the record, on one line. The book’s verdict: **Missed, if ‘early 2026’ meant the first quarter (the book counts it as a miss)**.

- Promised 31 March 2026
- Evidence read 28 August 2026
- Today Nov 2026

**369 MW** evidenced at the end-of-August 2026 reading, of 2,263 MW announced or estimated (16%).

## The announcement

**Announced or estimated capacity (IT load):** 2,263 MW

**Where the announcement was read:** [epoch.ai](https://epoch.ai/data/ai-data-centers/directory/microsoft-fairwater-wisconsin)

**When it was read:** 28 August 2026

## The promise

**Promised by:** 31 March 2026

**What was promised:** operations

**Where the promise was read:** [blogs.microsoft.com](https://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2025/09/18/made-in-wisconsin-the-worlds-most-powerful-ai-datacenter/)

## At the close of the record

**Evidenced power (IT load), end of August 2026:** 369 MW

**Where the evidence was read:** [epoch.ai](https://epoch.ai/data/ai-data-centers/directory/microsoft-fairwater-wisconsin)

**When it was read:** 28 August 2026

**The book’s verdict:** Missed, if ‘early 2026’ meant the first quarter (the book counts it as a miss)

## The book’s note

Promised ‘online in early 2026’ (18 Sep 2025), read as 31 March. Epoch dates the first building operating on 16 April 2026, 16 days late on that reading; Microsoft’s chief executive called it six weeks ahead of schedule. 2,263 MW is Epoch’s estimate, not Microsoft’s figure. Slippage matrix row 21. Status word aligned with the book’s August 2026 compilation’s table of promised dates at rev 589 (6 Oct 2026): missed if ‘early 2026’ means the first quarter; called six weeks early by its chief executive.

## Also

**Who is involved:**

- owner [Microsoft](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/parties/microsoft)

## Campuses near it in the ledger

- [Stargate Port Washington / Lighthouse](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/ledger/stargate-port-washington-lighthouse) Wisconsin, US
- [Fairwater Atlanta](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/ledger/fairwater-atlanta) shares a party
- [Stargate Norway](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/ledger/stargate-norway) shares a party
- [Nebius Vineland](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/ledger/nebius-vineland) shares a party
- [Stargate UK](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/ledger/stargate-uk) shares a party

## Questions about this campus

**Is Fairwater Wisconsin energized?:** Fairwater Wisconsin (Microsoft; Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin, US) was promised operations by 31 March 2026; at the end-of-August 2026 reading the public record evidences 369 MW of IT load against 2,263 MW announced or estimated. The book’s verdict: missed, if ‘early 2026’ meant the first quarter (the book counts it as a miss).

**When was Fairwater Wisconsin promised to be energized?:** Fairwater Wisconsin was promised operations by 31 March 2026.

**Who is building Fairwater Wisconsin?:** Microsoft (owner).

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