Editor's note: This story was updated after state records showed additional Microsoft land acquisitions in Mount Pleasant.
Microsoft has purchased 173 acres of undeveloped land in the Village of Mount Pleasant, near the current construction site of its data center campus.
The land, sold by several land owners, is located along Louis Sorenson Road in the village of Mount Pleasant. The land was bought for about $34 million, state records show. The land is immediately northwest of the site where the company is building the first phase of its data center campus.
The bulk of data center construction is currently happening near County Road KR and 90
th Street.
Microsoft bought the land in four transactions. The
Audrey L. Schaefer family sold 69 acres for $12.4 million. An affiliate of
Robert Funk Farms, Inc. sold 10 acres of land to the company for $2.3 million. Another 54 acres was sold through a trust linked to
Bruce Funk and
Vicki Funk for $11.8 million. In addition, 30 acres was sold by
Grace Mears of Sturtevant for $6.7 million and 10 acres was sold by
John A. Holmes for $800,000.
Representatives from Microsoft were not immediately available for comment.
The company also purchased 32 acres of land at 12721 Louis Sorenson Road
in May.
Earlier this year, Microsoft unveiled plans to build
a $3.3 billion artificial intelligence data center in Mount Pleasant.
This followed an announcement made in March of 2023, when Microsoft announced plans to build a $1 billion data center on a 315-acre site, which was part of the Foxconn development area in Mount Pleasant.
Foxconn relinquished its development rights for the site in order for it to be sold by the village to Microsoft, for $50 million. Microsoft said it expected to have 200 employees in the first phase of its Mount Pleasant data center development.
Then later in the year, Microsoft moved to significantly expand those plans. In November of 2023, after construction had already begun on the Microsoft data center, local officials announced that the company planned to purchase an additional 1,030 acres of land for the data center development.
Details of Microsoft’s expanded plans weren’t disclosed, but village and county officials said Microsoft planned to invest “billions” of dollars over the next decade on buildings, support structures, systems and equipment.
In December, Microsoft spent $176 million to buy the 1,030 acres from the village and a private landowner.
