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Facility snapshot
- Operator as published
- Microsoft
- Address and locality
- Caledonia · Racine County · Wisconsin
- Lifecycle status
- reported cancelled
- Facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Not stated
- Source freshness
- 13 September 2026
- Location precision
- approximate
- Source confidence
- confirmed
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-001000
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.
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Status history supplied by the source
- 2025-09-29 · 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 · 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
- 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 1.33.0, 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.
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