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Facility snapshot
- Operator as published
- Meta
- Address and locality
- County Road A · Beaver Dam · Dodge County · Wisconsin
- Lifecycle status
- reported under construction
- Facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Planned: 220 MW (source-reported; boundary not independently verified)
- Source freshness
- 13 September 2026
- Location precision
- exact
- Source confidence
- confirmed
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-000927
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 · reported proposed
Meta announced $1B data center at Alliant Energy Beaver Dam Commerce Park; Mortenson selected as general contractor
- 2026-03 · reported under construction
Mortenson leading site grading, foundational work, and infrastructure preparation; completion targeted 2027
Sources and attribution
- 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 1.33.0, 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.
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