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Facility snapshot
- Operator as published
- Undisclosed (major tech company, NDA not signed)
- Address and locality
- Cassville · Grant County · Wisconsin
- Lifecycle status
- reported cancelled
- Facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Not stated
- Source freshness
- 4 August 2026
- Location precision
- exact
- Source confidence
- reported
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-000216
What the source record says
Coordinates are Cassville city centroid; proposed site was ~400-500 acres in the town of Cassville. Grant County ED director confirmed company 'people will recognize' but declined to name it. Energy requirement estimated at 400-500 MW (per Wisconsin Watch, citing economic development director estimate). Investment range $1B-$2B; investmentUsd represents the floor. Town vote was April 16, 2026: 44-0 to ban data centers (ordinance lasts up to two years). Developer went silent post-vote and was reportedly considering Indiana and North Dakota sites.
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
- 2024-12 · reported proposed
Grant County Economic Development Corp. disclosed proposal for $1B-$2B campus; developer identity withheld; proximity to Cardinal-Hickory Creek transmission line cited as appeal
- 2026-04 · reported cancelled
Town of Cassville voters approved 44-0 an ordinance banning data centers in the township on April 16, 2026; developer went silent after the vote and was reported considering sites in Indiana and North Dakota
Sources and attribution
- Another $1 billion Wisconsin data center eyed in Grant County town of Cassville · Wisconsin Watch
- Another billion-dollar Wisconsin data center is eyed for Cassville in Grant County · PBS Wisconsin
- In rural Wisconsin, a town rejects a plan to build a massive data center · Wisconsin Watch
- HIFLD Electric Retail Service Territories (ORNL/DOE-CESER, 2023-08 vintage) · Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) / HIFLD
- A $2 billion proposal, then silence: How a Driftless Area data center deal fell apart · Wisconsin Watch
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.33.0, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID cassville-grant-county-wi. Filtered to data-center records in the 50 U.S. states; selected fields normalized for search and display; DataCenterData directory IDs added.
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