Microsoft will invest $1 billion in a data center campus off Huffaker Road, it announced Monday during a Rome Floyd County Development Authority meeting.
The project, dubbed Project Firecracker, encompasses a 347 acre property on Huffaker Road that Microsoft will purchase at $40,000 per acre.
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A look inside one of Microsoft’s Azure data centers.
Courtesy of Microsoft
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A Microsoft data center in Cheyenne, Wyoming. The company has plans to develop a data center in Floyd County off Huffaker Road.
Courtesy of Microsoft
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