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Beaver Dam Data Center

Meta · Beaver Dam · 8715-8773 County Road A, Beaver Dam, WI. Every figure below is individually sourced and dated.

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Part of the tracked campus Meta Beaver Dam Data Center.

The story of Beaver Dam Data Centerinherited from campus Meta Beaver Dam Data Center
Announced capex
$1B
Jobs
100 permanent reported
Cooling
Dry (waterless) cooling
Derived
Cost per MW
$5M/MW
Cost per job
$10M per permanent job

Every figure is one row in the ledger below with its source. Derived rows are pure arithmetic on the rows above (not new claims). Absent lines mean the fact isn't on record yet.

In clusterWisconsin(43)

The deal

Inherited from campus Meta Beaver Dam Data Center.

utility
Alliant Energy · PSC-approved 10-year service contract; Meta funds ~$200M transmission/substations
operator
Meta Platforms

Financial structure

Inherited from campus Meta Beaver Dam Data Center.

Meta campus investment
$1B. $1 billion+ AI-optimized data center campus (>700,000 sq ft) in Beaver Dam Commerce Park. press release
Meta energy infrastructure commitment
$200M. ~$200M toward energy infrastructure per Alliant announcement. press release

Investment, workforce and specs

Inherited from campus Meta Beaver Dam Data Center.

Capex
$1B source
Cooling
Dry (waterless) cooling source
Construction jobs
1,000+ skilled trades at peak construction source
Permanent jobs
100+ operational jobs source

Power

Inherited from campus Meta Beaver Dam Data Center. Live grid demand and drought overlay only render on the campus page.

Power source
grid
Grid operator
MISO
Interconnection
Water
Dry cooling; Meta states no water demand for cooling once operational, with water restoration returning 100% of consumed water to local watersheds.

Facility record

under construction

Status

hyperscale

Type

Meta

Operator

Beaver Dam

Location

700,000 sqft

Building

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Construction evidence

Dated satellite imagery of the site itself, oldest to newest, with the campus milestones that landed in each window. This is what the site looked like from orbit while announcements, permits, and energizations were dated into our ledger, so bare land, grading, and building mass tell their own story alongside the paper trail. Sentinel-2 true color, 10 m resolution, cloud-free scenes; click any frame to expand it.

Delivery paceAnnounced Q2 2026 · not yet energized

2018-07-08Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2018
2020-09-02Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2020
2022-08-31Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2022
2024-09-04Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2024
2025-08-02Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2025

Dated Sentinel-2 imagery, gated to hand-verified site coordinates. Milestones inherited from campus Meta Beaver Dam Data Center. How we source and verify it: satellite construction evidence.

Evidence

Each fact traces to a source. This is what a verified record looks like next to an unsourced directory listing.

  • building sqft: 700000 (reported) · source
  • record: Beaver Dam Data Center (reported) · source
  • status: under_construction (reported) · source
  • streetAddress: 8715-8773 County Road A, Beaver Dam, WI (reported) · source · Beaver Dam Commerce Park near Hwy 151/Hemlock Rd

Timeline

  1. Aug 2026
    First recorded
    Added to the DEPLOY registry as a sourced facility record
  2. Sep 2026
    Current: under construction

Facility-tier record. For campus-scale announced-vs-energized tracking see the data center index. DEPLOY is neutral infrastructure: what is claimed, what is verified, and when.

Common questions

What is Beaver Dam Data Center?
Beaver Dam Data Center is a data center facility record on the DEPLOY registry, in Beaver Dam. Every fact on the record is individually sourced and dated.
Who operates Beaver Dam Data Center?
Meta operates Beaver Dam Data Center, per the sourced record on the DEPLOY registry.
Is Beaver Dam Data Center operating?
Beaver Dam Data Center is recorded as under construction on the DEPLOY registry. Each figure traces to a source.
How verified is the data on Beaver Dam Data Center?
A human editor has reviewed this record for the indexed registry. Every rendered fact shows its source: this is what a verified record looks like next to an unsourced directory listing.

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DEPLOY. (2026). Beaver Dam Data Center: data center facility record. Retrieved September 27, 2026, from https://registry.deploy.report/datacenters/facilities/meta-beaver-dam-wi-data-center

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