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Meta Beaver Dam Data Center

Meta lists a data center at Beaver Dam, Wisconsin among the sites it operates. It is running; the record holds no sourced date for when it reached that stage.

How much power it needs, how much water it would use and who would use it have not been disclosed.

Last verified · 2 sources, 1 primary · A skeleton record: built from one source, not yet reviewed in depth by a person. · How to read this page

How to read this page. Every fact links to the source it rests on; a number in brackets is its place in the source list. A figure no source gives reads Not disclosed, and nothing is estimated. Where sources give different figures, each is shown with who gave it, and another source's figure never stands in for the record's own. Entries are added and never overwritten; corrections are listed under What happened.

What is known

Each figure as its source gave it. The number in brackets is its place in the source list.

Land
Not disclosed
Power it would draw
Not disclosed
Reported by others: 1,300 MW (WPR). Their figure, not the record's.
Water
Not disclosed
Who leads it
Meta
as stated by the source
Who would use it
Not disclosed
Jobs once it runs
Not disclosed
Tax each year
Not disclosed
Every field, with who said it and when (Researcher view)

Impact figures

FieldValueWho says soSourceLast verified
How much power it needs Not disclosed
How much water it would use Not disclosed
How loud it would be Not disclosed
Jobs once it runs Not disclosed
Tax it would pay each year Not disclosed

The record's fields

FieldValueWho says soSourceLast verified
Who is building it Meta as stated by the source September 17, 2026
Who is constructing it Not disclosed
How much land Not disclosed
Where its power comes from Not disclosed
Grid connection Not disclosed
How it is cooled Not disclosed

How much power it needs, also reported: 1,300 MW, 2025 (WPR: We Energies requested transmission interconnection for 1,300 megawatt facility at Port Washington data center.) .

The developer's figure is what the company said; what a permit allows is the ceiling a permit sets; measured means observed. Water is in gallons a day or a year, whichever the source stated; a tax claim given as a range shows both ends, each linked to the source that gave it.

Still not public, and where it would show up

The record adds each the day a source gives it. Why these documents.

  • Water useA state water right filing or a water supply agreement.
  • Who would use itA lease announcement or a tenant named in a filing.
  • Power the campus would drawA utility or public service commission docket, an interconnection filing, or an air permit for an on site plant.
  • Jobs and taxAn incentive agreement, a county's economic development filing or a fiscal note.

What happened

  1. (source date; the content gives no date of its own)

    Meta Beaver Dam data center is a $1 billion, 520 acre project expected to enter service in 2027 [2]

  2. · Status: running (the day the page was read; it gives no date of its own)

    Meta lists Meta Beaver Dam Data Center at Beaver Dam, Wisconsin on its own page of data center locations, read September 14, 2026. [1]

The full Meta Beaver Dam Data Center timeline, in order

1 correction to this record

Every correction, with its reason

  1. · the summary of a record items row

    the record's rules: the sentence copied its source, was about its headline or carried a number the card's facts do not; written again from the card's facts, on the editor's word The old and new text.

Every correction on the record is on the corrections page.

What was said

Microsoft's data center campus in Mount Pleasant and Port Washington data center would use more power than all homes in Wisconsin, according to Clean Wisconsin analysis.
Clean Wisconsin · December 10, 2025 · paraphrased · WPR local outlet

Every statement about data centers in Wisconsin, by speaker

The site

Where in Beaver Dam is not in the public record. The pin marks the center of Beaver Dam, not a building, and the outline is Dodge County.

  • This record: Running, ringed
  • data center
  • Dashed edge: the exact site is not in the public record
  • Smaller pins: 6 other published records in Wisconsin
Details
  • this record's location, ringed
  • parcel outline, from the county parcel record
  • city limits, U.S. Census Bureau, on a town level record
  • county boundary

The other pins are the published projects in the same state, each in its stage color. The imagery beneath is the USGS national orthoimagery, public domain, shown so the land around the site can be read.

Where
Beaver Dam, Dodge County, Wisconsin
How exactly it is located
Town level, the center of the city
The parcel
No parcel outline in the public record
Nearest homes
Not computed for a record placed at a place center
Nearest records
Nearest records are not computed for a record placed at the center of its town.

Comparisons

1 metric with more than one figure

Every figure on the record for the same thing, the record's own or the document's first, each with who gave it, its date and its basis.

Capacity at full buildout

1 figure, 1 source
Not disclosedNot disclosed

No filing or developer document on the record states one.

1,300 MWReported

WPR, Dec 10, 2025

Show each source's words
  • 1,300 MW, WPR: We Energies requested transmission interconnection for 1,300 megawatt facility at Port Washington data center.

Keep going

The county Dodge County 1 project on the record. The state Data centers in Wisconsin Every Wisconsin project, the rules on the record and what comes next.

Questions about this project

7 questions answered from the record

Answered from the rows on this page.

How big is Meta Beaver Dam Data Center?

Not disclosed. No source on file gives its capacity, its acreage or a count of buildings. What the record holds instead is under Disclosed.

Who is building Meta Beaver Dam Data Center?

Meta is the developer. No construction contractor is named on the record yet.

Who will use Meta Beaver Dam Data Center?

Not disclosed. No source on file names a tenant, says whether the site is single or multi tenant, or states what it is for. The record keeps the use as not disclosed until one does; see Who it serves.

How much power and water does Meta Beaver Dam Data Center say it needs?

Power: not disclosed by any source on file. Water: not disclosed by any source on file.

Where does Meta Beaver Dam Data Center stand today?

It is running; the date it reached that stage is not sourced, only the day a page was read. The newest entry, reported September 17, 2026: Meta Beaver Dam data center is a $1 billion, 520 acre project expected to enter service in 2027 [2].

What has Beaver Dam or Dodge County decided about it?

No decision by Beaver Dam or Dodge County about data centers is on the record. The Dodge County page and the Wisconsin scorecard list every rated row the day a person publishes one.

What is still unknown about Meta Beaver Dam Data Center?

Not disclosed by any source on file: how much power it needs, how much water it would use, how loud it would be, jobs once it runs, tax it would pay each year, who is constructing it, how much land, where its power comes from, grid connection, how it is cooled. No missing primary document is listed for this record yet; What the record lacks is where one appears when a person names it.

Sources

Primary documents first: filings, minutes, dockets and official pages. Then reporting. The numbers are the ones the entries above cite.

Primary documents

  1. Meta: Our U.S. data center fleet, Meta, September 14, 2026

Reporting

  1. Alliant Energy seeks new rate for data centers in southern Wisconsin - Journal Times, Journal Times, September 17, 2026, local outlet

2 sources on file.

Cite this record

Data Center Record, "Meta Beaver Dam Data Center", https://datacenterrecord.org/projects/meta-beaver-dam-data-center-wi, last verified September 17, 2026.

Last verified , first recorded . Every correction is logged on the corrections page and under What happened.

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Slug
meta-beaver-dam-data-center-wi
Status value
operational
Stage
Running
Tier
skeleton
Tags
skeleton
Place id
us/wi/dodge-county/beaver-dam
Coordinates
43.4740618, -88.8295539
Location precision
city
Location source
U.S. Census Bureau TIGERweb city centroid, public domain
Coordinate source
tigerweb city centroid
Location source number
Not disclosed
Location last verified
September 14, 2026
EPA registry id
Not disclosed
Use type values
not_disclosed
Tenancy value
not_disclosed
Cooling type value
not_disclosed
Capacity basis
not_disclosed
Water basis
not_disclosed, gallons_per_day
Acreage basis
Not disclosed
Interconnection value
not_disclosed
Capacity, if disclosed
Not disclosed
Rating of the county's rows
Not disclosed
Published
2026-09-14
Last verified
2026-09-17