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Oppidan Beaver Dam Edge Data Center

Beaver Dam, Dodge County, Wisconsin · All 5 Oppidan Investment Company sites

PermittedContestedRecord updated October 16, 2026

Oppidan Beaver Dam Edge Data Center is a permitted data center in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin (Dodge County), operated by Oppidan Investment Company. The public record puts it at announced February 2026, 14 acres. It is the subject of active public debate, with hearings, petitions, or organized opposition on record.

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Facility record

Permitted

Operator: Oppidan Investment Company
Facility type: Data center
Location: Highway 151 and Hemlock Road, Beaver Dam, Dodge County, WI
Coordinates: 43.4578, -88.8373 (approximate)
Power capacity: Not established from a public source
Land: 14 acres
Investment: Not established from a public source
Announced: February 2026
Utility: Alliant Energy
Power source: Grid
Cooling: Not established from a public source
Water use: 0.0059 million gallons a day, reported
Jobs: 15 permanent
Public subsidy: Not established from a public source
Community reception: Contested
Source confidence: Reported by at least one credible outlet or filing

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.

April 7, 2026
Permitted
Beaver Dam Common Council voted 11-3 to authorize a development agreement and the sale of slightly more than 14 acres of city land near Highway 151 and Hemlock Road for $407,340; construction set to begin summer 2026 with the facility online in 2028. Source: Daily Dodge

Opposition and litigation at this site

Yes. Oppidan Beaver Dam Edge Data Center in Beaver Dam, Dodge County, Wisconsin is contested. Hearings, public comment, petitions, or organized opposition are on record, and no lawsuit has been filed so far. At the February 2026 council presentation about a dozen speakers opposed the plan, citing secrecy around Meta's nearby project, water and energy use, and property values.

How the community has taken it

Reception is a sourced signal, not an editorial judgment: contested means active public debate is on record, with hearings, petitions, or organized opposition, without litigation.

At the February 2026 council presentation about a dozen speakers opposed the plan, citing secrecy around Meta's nearby project, water and energy use, and property values. The council later approved the development agreement and land sale.

Source: Wisconsin Public Radio

Power and water

Alliant Energy sent the developer a letter listing what is needed for electric service, with an engineering review to follow a formal application. The developer projects under 20 MW at full build-out.

Estimated daily water usage of 5,929 gallons for the 90,000 sq ft facility, about 0.0059 million gallons per day. This is the project's own estimate as presented to the Beaver Dam City Council, not a measured figure, and the source does not identify a cooling method.

Notes on the record

A 90,000-square-foot single-story regional edge data center, a separate, much smaller project from Meta's ~700,000-square-foot Beaver Dam campus already tracked. Council deliberations raised water use, utility rates and tax-fairness concerns. Coordinates are a municipality-level locator; the site is at Highway 151 and Hemlock Road.

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.

Power capacity in megawatts
Tax abatements or other public subsidy

Which document closes each gap

Power capacity in megawatts: The utility's large load service agreement, the interconnection request in the grid operator's queue, or the electrical site plan in the permit file.
Tax abatements or other public subsidy: The abatement, PILOT, or development agreement approved by the county, city, or development authority, and the state's data center sales tax exemption certificate if one was issued.

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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.

Meta Beaver Dam Data Center Campus · Beaver Dam · Metaunder 1 mile · Under construction · 220 MW · Mixed reception
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 Oppidan Beaver Dam Edge Data Center in Beaver Dam?

Has anyone filed a lawsuit over the Oppidan Beaver Dam Edge Data Center?

No lawsuit over Oppidan Beaver Dam Edge Data Center appears in the record we track as of October 16, 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 Oppidan Beaver Dam Edge Data Center use?

0.0059 million gallons a day is the reported figure on record. Estimated daily water usage of 5,929 gallons for the 90,000 sq ft facility, about 0.0059 million gallons per day.

Who operates Oppidan Beaver Dam Edge Data Center, and how big is it?

Oppidan Investment Company is the operator on record. We hold 5 sites for that company across the registry. No capacity figure is on record for this site. The site is recorded at 14 acres.

How to cite this page

SueDataCenters.org Data Center Registry, "Oppidan Beaver Dam Edge Data Center," updated October 16, 2026, https://suedatacenters.org/data-centers/oppidan-beaver-dam-edge-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/oppidan-beaver-dam-edge-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.Beaver Dam Common Council Approves Second Data Center · Daily Dodge · retrieved September 1, 2026
2.Second data center project proposed in Beaver Dam (90,000 sq ft, 13-acre site at Highway 151 and Hemlock Road, under 20 MW, 5,929 gallons/day estimated water use, 15 full-time jobs) · Wisconsin Public Radio · retrieved October 16, 2026

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