Meta announces $1B AI data center campus in Beaver Dam

Meta announced a major investment to build an AI-optimized data center campus in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, located in Alliant Energy’s Beaver Dam Commerce Park and expected to come online in 2027.

• Project details and commitments: Meta will invest more than $1 billion to build an AI-optimized data center campus spanning over 700,000 square feet with operational buildings targeting LEED Gold; the site is expected online in 2027, will support more than 1,000 skilled trade jobs at peak construction and 100+ operational jobs, and Meta will match the site’s electricity use with 100% clean and renewable energy while underwriting nearly $200 million in energy infrastructure (network upgrades, utility substations, transmission lines).
• Background, timelines and environmental actions: Over the next ten years, Meta will donate $15 million to Alliant Energy’s Hometown Care Energy Fund; the facility will use dry cooling (no water demands for cooling when operational) and Meta will restore 100% of water consumed by the Beaver Dam site to local watersheds; the project includes restoration of 570 acres of wetland and prairie (with 175 acres deeded to Ducks Unlimited). The site is in Alliant Energy’s largest certified commerce park, designated a WEDC certified site in 2019.