Microsoft has filed plans for a sprawling data center campus on 349 acres just outside Rome in Floyd County, Georgia, with three buildings that could total nearly 1.7 million square feet once complete. The project, dubbed ATL80, is projected to employ 150 people and operate around the clock, five days a week, once it comes online.
According to a Development of Regional Impact application submitted on October 20, the site sits at 0 Huffaker Road, placing it on the outer edge of the Atlanta metro area, as reported by datacenterdynamics.com. The filing lays out a three-building campus with up to 1,659,000 square feet of floor space. Microsoft first picked up the property in 2023, when the project was known internally as Project Firecracker, per the same filing.
Power, Water and the Price Tag
Microsoft's filing puts the total power capacity for the Floyd County campus at 422 megawatts, to be supplied by Georgia Power, while the facility's maximum water draw is projected at 13,500 gallons per day. Those figures, drawn from the development application, offer an early picture of the infrastructure demands a project of this size would place on the area.
The dollar figures attached to the project vary depending on the source and what exactly is being measured. Connect CRE describes Microsoft as pursuing a $340 million data center campus, while the development application reviewed by datacenterdynamics.com pegs the project's value at $360 million once built out, with an estimated $35 million in annual local tax revenue. It is not clear from the available filings whether those two figures are measuring the same thing, such as construction cost versus total built-out valuation.
A Growing Footprint Across Georgia
Microsoft's Floyd County plans are part of a broader buildout across the state. The company already has data center projects operating or under development in Fairburn, Douglasville, Palmetto, Rome, East Point and Tyrone, according to datacenterdynamics.com. Microsoft announced a new U.S. Azure region in 2021 and revealed in December 2025 that it was building in Palmetto, Douglasville and East Point across Fulton and Douglas counties.
In Union City, Microsoft is pursuing its ATL50 project, a two-building campus totaling 910,000 square feet on an 88-acre parcel, with a target completion around 2032 — the same year targeted for the Floyd County site. Connect CRE separately describes Microsoft's Union City work as a $1.8 billion data center effort. In Douglasville, a project filed under the name FTY101 called for four 245,000-square-foot technology facilities on a 160-acre parcel at 1601 North River Road, part of plans for almost 1 million square feet of data center buildings tied to Microsoft's East US 3 Azure region, the news outlet's reporting shows. An earlier estimate for that Douglasville buildout put the total at 980,000 square feet, with completion then projected for 2023.
No timeline has been confirmed for construction to begin on the Floyd County campus, and the current filings reflect projections rather than finalized outcomes. If the 2032 target holds, ATL80 would join a growing cluster of Microsoft data center sites stretching from the western edge of metro Atlanta to the foothills near Rome.
