Free Newsletter
Port Washington approves $8 billion data center
City leaders in Port Washington have green-lit an $8 billion data center campus despite concerns from area residents over the environmental impact of the project.
Grids change strategy as data center demands mount
As Big Tech’s data centers continue to grow threatening to overload U.S. electricity grids, policymakers are considering bumping the energy-hungry data centers off grids during power emergencies.
ON THE LEVEL: Boldt’s Dale Lewis talks about the ‘explosive power’ of data centers in Wisconsin
Dale Lewis, head of The Boldt Company’s data center development efforts, told The Daily Reporter the advent of AI and fast-paced growth in the tech industry has spurred the recent boom in data center growth around the country.
Port Washington approves development agreement for $8 billion data center
The data center proposal for Port Washington only takes up around a third of space the city acquired, but will have a higher investment than the data center campus in Mount Pleasant.
Port Washington’s 1,900-acre data center will include four buildings in the first phase
After months of land acquisition and negotiation, design details have been shared for a 2.5 million-square-foot data center in Port Washington.
Microsoft data center plans growing beyond $3.3 billion in Mount Pleasant
With the first phase of development wrapping up next year, Microsoft Corp. announced its Mount Pleasant data center development is still growing.
Port Washington data center agreement includes tax revenue, infrastructure work
A development agreement is on the table for Port Washington and its data center developer, offering more insight into tax revenue, infrastructure work and the data center project itself.
Virginia company eyes Caledonia for 245-acre data center plans
Virginia-based Dewberry Engineers proposed a data center south of Douglas Avenue and County Line Road, west of the Oak Creek Power Plant.
Developer looks to build data center campus in Dane County
Project could have as many as 15 buildings constructed over the next decade
Evers signs law to help data center development in Port Washington and Beaver Dam
The state created some exceptions for public financial support for data center projects in Port Washington and Beaver Dam.
Denver-based data center company buys swaths of land in Port Washington
Land was bought in preparation of a proposed billion-dollar data center, which is planned across 1,600 acres of land north of Port Washington.
Amazon planning $10B investment in North Carolina for data center and AI campus
Amazon plans to invest $10 billion toward building a campus in North Carolina to expand its cloud computing and artificial intelligence infrastructure.
Polls
Loading ...Today’s News
- Megaprojects push Milwaukee construction costs above U.S. average
- Brown County drops data center moratorium proposal
- Cobalt Partners share North Shore Library development plans
- Zignego Co. scores $45M highway contract at start of construction season
- New Berlin residents cold on Rockwell Automations plan
- TOP BIDDERS: The biggest recent winning bids from around Wisconsin | June 1
- WisDOT studying redesign of Walker’s Point interchange
- $2M outdoor improvements to begin at Appleton middle school
- Kenosha firm completes largest private affordable housing project in Wisconsin
- After federal DEI rollback, Wisconsin DBE recertifications plummet
- Milwaukee Tool plans 141,000-square-foot expansion in Menomonee Falls
- Wisconsin Pre-Bid Meetings – Week of June 1, 2026
Project Profiles
- First prefabricated bridge in US installed in Eau Claire County
- Illinois developer worked with Wisconsin contractor to build 258-unit Wauwatosa apartment complex
- VJS Construction raises the roof for Bruce Guadalupe Community School expansion project
- Microgrid pilot project will store energy for village affected by outages
- Dane County sees uptick in highway work zone crashes, on track to exceed last year
- The Hop streetcar will debut newest service route in fall with limited service
- FPC Live slims venue proposal to 1 downtown building
- Children’s Hospital urgent care center in Milwaukee gets first round of city approval
- With Sonag Construction shut down, feds move to block indicted owner from collecting leftover assets
- Four contractors selected to build border wall prototypes
- UW-Milwaukee’s Greenstreet shaping minds (and the city)
- Turning the Corner(s) (PHOTO SLIDESHOW)