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Reported geography
Source-reported location for Project Nova Data Center Campus (Caledonia).
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Source row snapshot
- Operator as published
- Microsoft
- Address and locality
- Caledonia · Racine County · Wisconsin
- Official metro area
- Racine-Mount Pleasant, WI
- Source-reported status
- cancelled
- Provider facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Not stated
- Source freshness
- 13 September 2026
- Location precision
- approximate
- Compute Atlas confidence label
- confirmed (provider's classification; not a DataCenterData check)
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-001000
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.
- Land area
- 244 acres (source-reported; parcel boundary not established)
- Community response
- Provider label: opposed
- Announced
- September 2025
Provider notes
Community. More than 2,000 people signed a petition opposing the rezoning. Microsoft said it remains committed to finding another site in Caledonia or elsewhere in Racine County.
What the source record says
Microsoft's third Racine County site, known internally as Project Nova: 244 acres of farmland at County Line Road and State Highway 32 (Douglas Avenue/Botting Road area), southwest of the We Energies Oak Creek Power Plant, planned for three data center structures plus a 15-acre electrical substation. Distinct from Microsoft's Mount Pleasant campus and its Kenosha site. WPR reported the project would have employed "anywhere from 50 to 200 people" with "about 300 to 400 construction workers" — a range, so no jobs figures are recorded here. Coordinates are a street-level geocode of Botting Road, not a parcel-confirmed point.
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
- 2025-09-29 · source-reported proposed
Caledonia Plan Commission voted 5-2 to rezone the 244-acre site from agriculture to light manufacturing and office; a Village Board vote was scheduled for Oct. 14, 2025.
- 2025-10-08 · source-reported cancelled
Microsoft withdrew the rezoning request: "Based on the community feedback we heard, we have chosen not to move forward with this site."
Sources and attribution
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- Wisconsin village's plan commission approves rezoning for Microsoft data center · Wisconsin Public Radio
- Microsoft pulls plug on plans for 244-acre data center in Caledonia after community pushback · TMJ4 News
- Microsoft cancels Wisconsin data center (Project Nova) — three buildings and a 15-acre substation · Tom's Hardware via Yahoo News
- Is there a data center in your community? Here's a map of the data centers in Wisconsin (lists "Project Nova, Caledonia") · Milwaukee Journal Sentinel via Yahoo News
- OpenStreetMap/Nominatim geocode of Botting Road, Caledonia, Racine County, WI (coordinate provenance) · OpenStreetMap contributors
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.34.1, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID microsoft-project-nova-caledonia-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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Recorded information
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Licensed directory listing dcd-dir-001000
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.
Location and precision
- Caledonia, WI · Racine (Approximate location)
Roles
- Operator: Microsoft
Operator label as published by the provider; no parent company is inferred.
Lifecycle
- Source-stated status: source-reported cancelled
Provider status label; not a DataCenterData finding that the facility is operating.
- Announced: September 2025
Provider-reported announcement date.
- Status history: 2025-09-29 · source-reported proposed
Status history supplied by the source.
- Status history: 2025-10-08 · source-reported cancelled
Status history supplied by the source.
Area, acreage and buildings
- Land area: 244 acres (source-reported; parcel boundary not established)
Power capacity
- Reported capacity: Not stated
Reproduced as the page prints it; not ranked or totaled; unknown is not zero.
Permits, incentives, jobs and proceedings
- Community response: Provider label: opposed
Compute Atlas characterization, not a DataCenterData assessment.
Sources, dates, limitations and corrections
- Provider update date: 2026-09-13
Provider update date is not a DataCenterData verification date.
Not yet recorded here: Cooling, water, PUE and WUE · 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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