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Facility snapshot
- Operator as published
- QTS Data Centers
- Address and locality
- DeForest · Dane County · Wisconsin
- Lifecycle status
- reported cancelled
- Facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Not stated
- Source freshness
- 25 July 2026
- Location precision
- exact
- Source confidence
- confirmed
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-001201
What the source record says
CANCELLED: QTS withdrew Jan 28-29 2026 after DeForest found the proposal not feasible and the Village Board signaled a 7-0 rejection of the required annexation; WI DOA found the 1,572.5-acre annexation petition not in the public interest. Active footprint was 650 acres (five buildings). Capacity omitted: no source discloses facility IT load; the 750 MW figure was a grid renewable-energy-credit commitment via Alliant, not the campus draw. INVESTMENT OMITTED: the $12B figure is secondary press only (QTS said 'multibillion-dollar') and unrealized. Projected 5,000+ construction and 'hundreds' of permanent jobs were never realized (project cancelled). The $50M community commitment was a QTS-to-county pledge, not a government subsidy. Coordinates are the DeForest centroid.
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
- 2025-10-30 · reported proposed
QTS publicly announced the Dane County hyperscale campus; zoning and annexation applications submitted to DeForest in November 2025
- 2026-01-28 · reported cancelled
Village of DeForest declared the proposal not feasible; QTS withdrew all applications after the Village Board signaled a 7-0 rejection of annexation. WI DOA separately found the annexation not in the public interest.
Sources and attribution
- QTS advances plans for Dane County campus - official press release · QTS Data Centers
- QTS plans multibillion-dollar data center campus in Dane County · Spectrum News 1 Wisconsin
- Village of DeForest - QTS project public engagement portal · Village of DeForest
- QTS drops plan for data center near Madison, Wisconsin · Data Center Dynamics
- DeForest cancels $12 billion QTS data center plan · The Daily Reporter
- QTS withdraws data center project in Village of DeForest · WTMJ
- QTS DeForest, Wisconsin - Baxtel facility record · Baxtel
- HIFLD Electric Retail Service Territories (ORNL/DOE-CESER, 2023-08 vintage) · Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) / HIFLD
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.33.0, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID qts-dane-county-deforest-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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