Gov. Tony Evers and Microsoft officials on Thursday announced that Microsoft is investing an additional $4 billion to expand its planned datacenter campus in Mount Pleasant, raising the company’s total investment in Wisconsin to more than $7 billion.
Last May, Microsoft confirmed that it would invest $3.3 billion by the end of 2026 in the Mount Pleasant datacenter, bringing thousands of union construction jobs to the area, as well as providing long-term employment opportunities over the next several years.
The company is on track to complete construction and bring this first artificial intelligence datacenter online in early 2026, and it has begun hiring full-time workers for the operation.
According to Microsoft officials, the company has also committed to building a second datacenter, which will be similar in size and scale and in the same area at a cost of approximately $4 billion by the end of 2028.
The datacenter campus in Mount Pleasant is part of a distributed training supercomputer spanning multiple locations.
Construction of the first Microsoft datacenter has already provided jobs for almost 10,000 Wisconsin workers, including more than 3,000 construction workers during peak operations.
Those workers have included electricians, plumbers, carpenters, pipefitters, structural iron and steel workers, concrete workers, and earth movers. The company indicated the second data center is expected to require a similar workforce.
