More than 375 people are working at Microsoft’s Mount Pleasant data center, a company executive says.
Bowen Wallace, corporate vice president for Microsoft, gave an update on the project to the Racine County Economic Development Corp. on May 7 at its “Impact 2026” event in Racine.
“We’ve hired over 375 full-time Microsoft employees,” Wallace said. This includes workers who deploy network server devices, operate and maintain electrical and plumbing control systems.
Microsoft is nearing the full completion of its first data center in Mount Pleasant and the company plans to have roughly 500 workers at that facility when it’s completed.
A second data center is currently under construction, which Wallace said, at its peak, will have roughly 3,000 construction jobs.
Microsoft is planning to add 15 more data centers to its property in Mount Pleasant during the next decade.
Wallace called the Racine County project the “absolutely flagship supercomputer in Microsoft’s portfolio.”
“When this project started back in 2023, it went from an idea to construction start faster than any project in our portfolio had ever done before and ever done since,” Wallace said.
This article originally appeared on Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Microsoft’s Mount Pleasant data center employs 375 people
Reporting by Ricardo Torres, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
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