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Meta Beaver Dam Data Center

Meta Beaver Dam Data Center is an AI data center campus developed by Meta Platforms in Wisconsin, Beaver Dam. 0.22 GW of capacity has been announced; none is energized yet. The gap is what this page tracks: what is claimed versus what is actually built, each figure dated and sourced.

Under construction · Meta Platforms · greenfield · MISO · Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, United States

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Capacity: announced vs energized

Under construction
not recorded
Energized
not recorded

Announced-to-energized gap: 0.22 GW. Every figure below is a single dated, sourced claim. Current best per series resolves by evidence tier, then date. See the methodology.

84th-largest announced of 102 tracked campuses21th percentile announced-to-energized gap≈ 178,000 homes of power at full announced capacity (basis)

Promised online: 2027. 15 months away. Claimed by Meta / Alliant Energy (source).

Meta Beaver Dam Data Center capacity claims
Source
Announced0.22 GW2026-06-01reportedjournalist report
Contracted0.22 GW2026-05-07verifiedutility filing

Key facts

under construction

Lifecycle

0.22 GW

Announced

0 GW

Energized

Meta Platforms

Developer

United States

Location

MISO

Grid

greenfield

Land

2

Facilities tracked

Reported facts

Structured facts sourced from citations already on this record. Each fact traces to a source in the References section below.

PSC one-off Alliant-Meta contract (reported May 2026)
Wisconsin Watch reports Wisconsin PSC commissioners on May 7, 2026 approved a modified one-off contract between Alliant Energy subsidiary Wisconsin Power and Light and the Meta subsidiary building the Beaver Dam campus, while directing Alliant to return with a standardized tariff for future large data-center customers. Regulators are quoted criticizing one-by-one secret negotiation as a transparency problem (Wisconsin Watch, May 7 2026)
Claimed 220 MW peak / 2027 opening (reported)
Wisconsin Watch reports Meta projects the Beaver Dam facility will use 220 MW at peak (described as less than half the projected use of then-upcoming Mount Pleasant and Port Washington campuses, yet six to eight times Beaver Dam's then-current peak), that the campus sits in the 350-plus-acre Beaver Dam Commerce Park, and that commissioners reasoned the campus would open in 2027 with or without a tailored Alliant contract (Wisconsin Watch, May 7 2026)
ATC $200M serving line / MISO award (reported)
Wisconsin Watch reports American Transmission Company is building an about $200 million line to plug in the Beaver Dam campus after MISO awarded the serving line to ATC, with Alliant's Meta contract including a minimum transmission fee and collateral protections intended to shield other Alliant customers if Meta backs out before the line is complete (ATC cost allocation to non-Alliant customers remains a PSC concern as reported) (Wisconsin Watch, May 7 2026)

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The story of 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

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

Power

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.

The MISO grid demand right now: 91.6 GW (EIA-930, 2026-10-02 01:00). Meta Beaver Dam Data Center's announced 0.22 GW would be 0.2% of the grid's current load.

County water status: No drought in Dodge County, week of 2026-09-29 (US Drought Monitor). Data centers are large water users for cooling; this is the neutral local water picture.

Why here

Meta Beaver Dam Data Center sits on greenfield in Wisconsin, Beaver Dam. It connects to the MISO grid, draws on grid power. This siting summary is composed from the record's held fields, not speculation; see methodology.

Financial structure

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

Regulatory paper trail

The filings and rules on record for this site and its jurisdiction, most recent first. Each is a sourced, dated artifact you can follow to the primary document.

NHTSA Recall: Zoox Robotaxi Software Update for Heavy Smoke Visibility (26E044)operational restriction · 2026-07-15 · United States
FCC Proposed Fines Against Drone Companies (July 2026)other · 2026-07-10 · United States

Investment, workforce and specs

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

Facilities at this campus

Timeline

  2. Aug 2026
    financial recorded
    capex: Meta energy infrastructure commitment
  3. Oct 2026
    Current: Under construction

Sources

862aafbc-2b12-4754-90c0-23933b2ab1f4 · Tracked with DEPLOY's verified-vs-claimed methodology. Every term is defined in the glossary. Announced numbers are claims, not built capacity.

Head-to-head

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Common questions

What is Meta Beaver Dam Data Center?
Meta Beaver Dam Data Center is an AI data center campus tracked on the DEPLOY registry, located in Beaver Dam. DEPLOY records its capacity as a dated, sourced ledger: announced gigawatts versus actually energized gigawatts, never a press-release total.
How much power will Meta Beaver Dam Data Center use?
Meta Beaver Dam Data Center has 0.22 GW of announced capacity on the DEPLOY registry; no energized capacity is yet recorded. Each figure is individually dated and sourced.
Who is building Meta Beaver Dam Data Center?
Meta Platforms is recorded as a party to Meta Beaver Dam Data Center on the DEPLOY registry. The full party list, with each role, is on the record.
Is Meta Beaver Dam Data Center operating yet?
As of the most recent verification on the DEPLOY registry, Meta Beaver Dam Data Center is under construction. DEPLOY tracks the lifecycle from announced through energized, so the current state reflects sourced evidence, not the original announcement.
How verified is the data on Meta Beaver Dam Data Center?
A human editor has reviewed this record for the indexed registry. Every capacity figure is an append-only, dated claim resolved to the highest-evidence tier; superseded claims are kept but excluded from the current view.

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Cite this page

DEPLOY. (2026). Meta Beaver Dam Data Center: AI data center campus record. Retrieved October 2, 2026, from https://registry.deploy.report/datacenters/meta-beaver-dam-wisconsin

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