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Reported geography
Source-reported location for Meta Beaver Dam Data Center Campus.
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Source row snapshot
- Operator as published
- Meta
- Address and locality
- County Road A · Beaver Dam · Dodge County · Wisconsin
- Official metro area
- Outside an official metropolitan boundary
- Source-reported status
- under construction
- Provider facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Planned: 220 MW (source-reported; boundary not independently verified; MW measure not stated by provider)
- Source freshness
- 13 September 2026
- Location precision
- approximate (provider label: exact; the provider's own note describes an approximate location)
- Compute Atlas confidence label
- confirmed (provider's classification; not a DataCenterData check)
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-000927
Reported details
Source-reported by Compute Atlas; not independently verified by DataCenterData. Provider wording is kept; long provider notes are shortened and marked …; unknown is not zero; none of these values is totaled, ranked or compared.
- Electric utility
- Alliant Energy
- Power source
- Grid
- Cooling
- Air
- Announced investment
- $1 billion
- Announced jobs
- 100 permanent · 1,000 construction
- Community response
- Provider label: mixed
- AI-use label (provider)
- confirmed
- Announced
- November 2025
Incentives reported by the source
Whether each incentive was approved, awarded or received is not established.
- Wisconsin sales and use tax exemption for a qualified data center (WEDC certification of Degas LLC, Beaver Dam — County Road A; certified 2/18/2025) · Wisconsin · 2025 Open cited source →
Provider notes
Energy. Meta committed to 100% clean and renewable energy; also investing ~$200M in grid infrastructure upgrades and substations
Water. Dry cooling — no water consumption for cooling once operational; 570 acres of wetland/prairie restoration surrounding facility via Ducks Unlimited partnership
Community. Gov. Evers expressed strong support; some residents raised concerns about water modeling and aquifer impacts
What the source record says
Coordinates are approximate city centroid for Beaver Dam; exact site is Alliant Energy Beaver Dam Commerce Park (Wisconsin's largest certified development-ready site). 700,000+ sq ft campus. Meta's 26th US data center. AI workloads are the stated purpose.
Any MW value is reproduced as source-reported context. Its measurement boundary is not established consistently enough for comparison. Unknown is not zero.
Status history supplied by the source
- 2025-11 · source-reported proposed
Meta announced $1B data center at Alliant Energy Beaver Dam Commerce Park; Mortenson selected as general contractor
- 2026-03 · source-reported under construction
Mortenson leading site grading, foundational work, and infrastructure preparation; completion targeted 2027
Sources and attribution
These sources are listed for the whole row. Unless a figure links to its own source, the provider does not mark which one gave it, so a figure may not appear in every source.
- Hello, Beaver Dam! — Meta Data Centers blog · Meta
- Meta taps Mortenson for $1B Wisconsin data center · Construction Dive
- Meta $1B Beaver Dam announcement — Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation · WEDC
- Wisconsin regulators approve rates for Meta's Beaver Dam data center, with sharp criticism · Wisconsin Public Radio (WPR)
- Lawsuit seeks release of expected energy demand from Meta data center in Beaver Dam · Wisconsin Public Radio
- WI judge rules on data center energy demand secrets · The Daily Reporter
- New details revealed for Meta's Beaver Dam data center (up to 220 MW, per newly unredacted Alliant Energy service contract) · WisBusiness
- Meta announces $1 billion Data Center Investment in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin Project (dry cooling, water restoration, renewable match, $200M energy infrastructure) · Alliant Energy
- DOR Qualified Data Center Exemption — certified qualified data centers, incl. Degas LLC, Beaver Dam (County Road A), certified 2/18/2025 · Wisconsin Department of Revenue
- Bloomberg: Meta is the developer behind planned Beaver Dam data center (agreements made with "a company working through Degas LLC"; state incentive deal reached February 2025) · Wisconsin Public Radio
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.34.1, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID meta-beaver-dam-wi. Filtered to data-center records in the 50 U.S. states; selected fields normalized for search and display; DataCenterData directory IDs added. Some locations in this layer are reported by the provider as derived from OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL, https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright) and Epoch AI (CC BY 4.0).
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Operator’s own listing
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- Name as listed
- Beaver Dam
- Address as published
- Beaver Dam, WI
Lifecycle status is not published for this listing.
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Recorded information
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Licensed directory listing dcd-dir-000927
Licensed directory row.
Provider notes and the source narrative are printed on this page and are not repeated here.
Identity and relationships
- Provider facility type: data center
Provider facility type.
- AI-use label (provider): confirmed
Compute Atlas classification, not a DataCenterData finding.
Location and precision
- County Road A, Beaver Dam, WI · Dodge (Approximate location)
Roles
- Operator: Meta
Operator label as published by the provider; no parent company is inferred.
Lifecycle
- Source-stated status: source-reported under construction
Provider status label; not a DataCenterData finding that the facility is operating.
- Announced: November 2025
Provider-reported announcement date.
- Status history: 2025-11 · source-reported proposed
Status history supplied by the source.
- Status history: 2026-03 · source-reported under construction
Status history supplied by the source.
Power capacity
- Reported capacity: Planned: 220 MW (source-reported; boundary not independently verified; MW measure not stated by provider)
Reproduced as the page prints it; not ranked or totaled; unknown is not zero.
- Electric utility: Alliant Energy
Utility as named by the provider.
- Power source: Grid
Provider label.
Cooling, water, PUE and WUE
- Cooling: Air
Provider label.
Permits, incentives, jobs and proceedings
- Announced investment: $1 billion
Announced figure; whether it covers one building, a campus or a multi-phase program is not established.
- Announced jobs: 100 permanent · 1,000 construction
Announced figures; whether they cover one building, a campus or a multi-phase program is not established.
- Community response: Provider label: mixed
Compute Atlas characterization, not a DataCenterData assessment.
- Incentive reported by the source: Wisconsin sales and use tax exemption for a qualified data center (WEDC certification of Degas LLC, Beaver Dam — County Road A; certified 2/18/2025) · Wisconsin · 2025
Whether the incentive was approved, awarded or received is not established.
Sources, dates, limitations and corrections
- Provider update date: 2026-09-13
Provider update date is not a DataCenterData verification date.
Not yet recorded here: Area, acreage and buildings · Connectivity · Services · Certifications and design ratings · Rack density · Availability · Specification links and contact.
Licensed values: adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak under CC BY 4.0. Source-reported and not independently verified.
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