Microsoft has confirmed that it is behind a data center project in Tyrone, Georgia.

In a blog post, the cloud giant announced it would be holding a "community information session" regarding the data center on May 19, to discuss energy usage, water, and sustainability, construction timelines, design, community investment, and job development.

Tyrone is in the Atlanta metropolitan area, part of Fayette County, Georgia.

While this is the first time Microsoft has acknowledged the Tyrone data center project on its own site, previously only noting plans for Douglasville, Palmetto, and East Point - also all located near Atlanta - it has been known that the company was planning the project for several months.

Earlier this year, The Citizen reported that Microsoft had received zoning permission to develop a data center on North Highway 74 between Kirkley Road and the northern city limits. The parcel spans 147 acres, and the project will see two data center buildings developed spanning a total of 500,000 sq ft (46,450 sqm).

A substation will also be developed at the site.

The project itself has been underway since November 2023, with a request made to annex the site 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 in Wisconsin launched last month.

In December 2025, the cloud company revealed it would be launching a new cloud region based in Atlanta, Georgia, in 2027. To be known as East US 3, plans for the cloud region were first revealed in 2021.

The company is known to be developing in Fulton County, outside of Atlanta, having broken ground in July 2024. Microsoft is also developing two other projects on the outskirts of Atlanta; in East Point, Fulton County; and Douglasville, Douglas County. All three projects will be part of East US 3.

The company also has a 347-acre property in Rome, Georgia, that was purchased in 2023 for a new data center campus. Rome is in northeast Georgia, close to the state border with Alabama, and around 70 miles (113 km) from the state's existing data center hub in Atlanta.

Earlier this year, Microsoft pledged to no longer sign NDAs related to data center projects as part of its "Community-First AI Infrastructure Plan."