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Facility snapshot
- Operator as published
- Microsoft
- Address and locality
- State Highway 142 west of Interstate 94 · Kenosha · Kenosha County · Wisconsin
- Lifecycle status
- reported proposed
- Facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Not stated
- Source freshness
- 13 September 2026
- Location precision
- exact
- Source confidence
- confirmed
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-000986
What the source record says
Coordinates approximate for NW quadrant of I-94/Hwy 142 intersection, Kenosha County. Land was already properly zoned for data center operations per DCD; Navix Engineering filed November 2024 permit application for four-building campus. Site is 6 miles south of Microsoft's Mount Pleasant facility; part of Microsoft's broader Wisconsin investment commitment. No building permit issued as of Jan 2025.
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
- 2025-01 · reported proposed
Microsoft acquired 240 acres NW of I-94 and Hwy 142 in Kenosha County; land was already properly zoned for data center operations (no rezoning required); Navix Engineering filed November 2024 application for four 250,000 sq ft single-story buildings with onsite substations
Sources and attribution
- Microsoft acquires 240 acres in Kenosha, Wisconsin, for data center development · Data Center Dynamics
- Microsoft Plans Kenosha, Wisconsin, Data Center Operations · Area Development
- We Energies service area · We Energies
- We Energies plans new gas plant for SE Wisconsin demand · Wisconsin Public Radio
- Area Development — Microsoft Plans Kenosha, Wisconsin, Data Center Operations
- Plan commission approves new Kenosha data center (four 250,000 sq ft buildings, new substation, air cooling, city sewer and water, annexation from Town of Paris, unanimous approval Nov. 22, 2024) · Wisconsin Public Radio
- Proposed Kenosha Data Center Remains on the Table (243-acre site west of I-94 along State Highway 142; city awaiting Microsoft site plans; construction could begin 2027) · WGTD
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.33.0, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID microsoft-kenosha-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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