Microsoft Fairwater, a giant AI data center complex in Racine, Wisconsin, costing $13-15 billion[1].
The engine calls it the world's most powerful AI data center and treats it as the physical, real-world body of the automated-machine economy it tracks.
It spans up to 15 buildings and 9 million square feet with hundreds of thousands of NVIDIA chips, built on old Foxconn land taken by eminent domain; Microsoft's Brad Smith says the cost jumped from $3.3 billion to $13-15 billion. It creates only 2,300 temporary construction jobs (Foxconn had promised 13,000), uses up to 8.4 million gallons of water a year, and its 3.9 gigawatt power draw beats every home in Wisconsin put together and is more than three times a nearby nuclear plant.
It shows the real cost of the AI boom: a mostly unstaffed facility swallowing a whole region's water and electricity to feed global computing demand, while giving back almost no local jobs.