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Meta Beaver Dam Data Center Campus

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Under constructionMixed receptionAI confirmedRecord updated October 22, 2026

Meta Beaver Dam Data Center Campus is a data center under construction in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin (Dodge County), operated by Meta. The public record puts it at announced November 2025, 220 MW planned, a reported $1 billion investment. It has documented support and documented opposition on record.

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Facility record

Under construction

Operator: Meta
Facility type: Data center, AI use confirmed
Location: County Road A, Beaver Dam, Dodge County, WI
Coordinates: 43.4570, -88.8370 (approximate)
Power capacity: 220 MW planned
Land: Not established from a public source
Investment: $1 billion
Announced: November 2025
Utility: Alliant Energy
Power source: Grid
Cooling: air
Water use: Not established from a public source
Jobs: 100 permanent; 1,000 construction
Public subsidy: Wisconsin sales and use tax exemption for a qualified data center (WEDC certification of Degas LLC, Beaver Dam, County Road A; certified 2/18/2025), Wisconsin, 2025
Community reception: Mixed reception
Source confidence: Confirmed by multiple independent sources or official documentation

Timeline from the record

Newest first. Record entries come from the filings and reports the registry cites. Coverage entries are headlines from publisher feeds we monitor daily, linked to the outlet; last checked September 14, 2026.

March 2026
Under construction
Mortenson leading site grading, foundational work, and infrastructure preparation; completion targeted 2027 Source: Construction Dive
November 2025
Proposed
Meta announced $1B data center at Alliant Energy Beaver Dam Commerce Park; Mortenson selected as general contractor Source: Meta

Opposition and litigation at this site

Partly. Both documented support and documented opposition to Meta Beaver Dam Data Center Campus in Beaver Dam, Dodge County, Wisconsin appear in the record, with no clear majority position. Gov.

How the community has taken it

Reception is a sourced signal, not an editorial judgment: mixed reception means documented support and documented opposition both exist with no clear majority position on record.

Gov. Evers expressed strong support; some residents raised concerns about water modeling and aquifer impacts

Source: Meta

Power and water

Meta committed to 100% clean and renewable energy; also investing ~$200M in grid infrastructure upgrades and substations

Dry cooling, no water consumption for cooling once operational; 570 acres of wetland/prairie restoration surrounding facility via Ducks Unlimited partnership

Public money on the record

Program	Amount	Granted by	Year
Wisconsin sales and use tax exemption for a qualified data center (WEDC certification of Degas LLC, Beaver Dam, County Road A; certified 2/18/2025)	Not established	Wisconsin	2025

Notes on the record

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.

What the record does not establish, and the document that would

In every fight on our tracker the decisive fact came out of a public records request. These are the requests for this site.

Land area

Which document closes each gap

Land area: The rezoning application, the plat, or the deed recorded with the county.

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Other sites within 30 miles

Distances are between recorded coordinates, many of which are a city or county centroid, so treat them as approximate. Cumulative load on one utility and one aquifer is the question a planning commission rarely asks.

Oppidan Beaver Dam Edge Data Center · Beaver Dam · Oppidan Investment Companyunder 1 mile · Permitted · Contested
Stonebridge Pacific AI Data Center (Columbia County) · Pacific · Stonebridge29 mi · Cancelled
QTS Dane County Hyperscale Campus (DeForest) · DeForest · QTS Data Centers29 mi · Cancelled · Opposed

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Questions people ask about this site

Is there opposition to the Meta Beaver Dam Data Center Campus in Beaver Dam?

Partly. Both documented support and documented opposition to Meta Beaver Dam Data Center Campus in Beaver Dam, Dodge County, Wisconsin appear in the record, with no clear majority position. Gov.

Has anyone filed a lawsuit over the Meta Beaver Dam Data Center Campus?

No lawsuit over Meta Beaver Dam Data Center Campus appears in the record we track as of October 22, 2026. Residents most often reach a lawyer over water supply, well drawdown, noise from cooling plant, property value, or a rezoning approved without the notice the ordinance required. If any of that is happening near this site, it is worth a review whether or not a case has been filed yet.

How much water does Meta Beaver Dam Data Center Campus use?

No water withdrawal figure for Meta Beaver Dam Data Center Campus is on record here. Cooling is recorded as air, which is the strongest available clue: closed loop and air cooled plant draw far less than evaporative cooling. We leave the number blank rather than estimate one.

Who operates Meta Beaver Dam Data Center Campus, and how big is it?

Meta is the operator on record. We hold 28 sites for that company across the registry. Capacity on record is 220 MW.

How to cite this page

SueDataCenters.org Data Center Registry, "Meta Beaver Dam Data Center Campus," updated October 22, 2026, https://suedatacenters.org/data-centers/meta-beaver-dam-wi.

Facility data from Compute Atlas (E. Kubiak), version 1.34.1 (October 4, 2026), licensed CC BY 4.0, record https://www.compute-atlas.com/facilities/meta-beaver-dam-wi, retrieved October 29, 2026.

Corrections with a public source are welcome at the Compute Atlas record or through our contact page. The whole registry is available as CSV and JSON under CC BY 4.0.

Sources for this record

As compiled and cited by Compute Atlas, with our own reporting appended. Archived links are used where the original has moved.

1.Hello, Beaver Dam!, Meta Data Centers blog · Meta · retrieved July 6, 2026
2.Meta taps Mortenson for $1B Wisconsin data center · Construction Dive · retrieved July 6, 2026
3.Meta $1B Beaver Dam announcement, Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation · WEDC · retrieved July 6, 2026
4.Wisconsin regulators approve rates for Meta's Beaver Dam data center, with sharp criticism · Wisconsin Public Radio (WPR) · retrieved July 17, 2026
5.Lawsuit seeks release of expected energy demand from Meta data center in Beaver Dam · Wisconsin Public Radio · retrieved September 10, 2026
6.WI judge rules on data center energy demand secrets · The Daily Reporter · retrieved September 10, 2026
7.New details revealed for Meta's Beaver Dam data center (up to 220 MW, per newly unredacted Alliant Energy service contract) · WisBusiness · retrieved September 13, 2026
8.Meta announces $1 billion Data Center Investment in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin Project (dry cooling, water restoration, renewable match, $200M energy infrastructure) · Alliant Energy · retrieved September 13, 2026
9.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 · retrieved September 13, 2026 · original offline, archived copy from October 21, 2026
10.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 · retrieved September 13, 2026

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