Data Center | Eye on Dunn County

Data Center | Eye on Dunn County

Proposed data center in Menomonie. Dunn County Wisconsin.

Menomonie City Council Special Meeting for 12/22/2025

The sun sets as construction continues at Microsoft’s data center project on Nov. 13, 2025, in Mount Pleasant, Wis. (Joe Timmerman / Wisconsin Watch)

As energy-hungry data centers loom, Wisconsin ratepayers owe $1 billion on shuttered power plants

FILE - Amazon Web Services data center is visible on Aug. 22, 2024, in Boardman, Ore. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane, File)

Data centers need electricity fast, but utilities need years to build power plants – who should pay?

Menomonie Planning Commission passes new data center zoning

Menomonie City Council sends data center zoning to Planning Commission

Photo by American Public Power Association on Unsplash

State regulators approve rate hikes for 3 Wisconsin utilities

FILE - Cars drive past data centers that house computer servers and hardware required to support modern internet use, such as artificial intelligence, in Ashburn, Virginia, July 16, 2023. (AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey, File)

Groups push back on Montana’s ‘data center boom’ in petition before utility commission

Sydney Brennan at meeting

Menomonie Open Town Hall with Sydney Brennan

This is an aerial rendering of what the planned data center campus in Port Washington could look like. Photo courtesy of the City of Port Washington

Democratic lawmakers propose ‘policy framework’ for Wisconsin data center construction

Menomonie City Council discusses budget, possible rental ordinances, and lighting requirements

Tom Content

Your Right to Know: Data center secrecy is unacceptable

This is an aerial rendering of what the planned data center campus in Port Washington could look like. Photo courtesy of the City of Port Washington

Proposed transmission line for a Wisconsin data center meets public opposition

Dunn County Seal

Dunn County PRD discusses large development projects including data centers

A Microsoft data center is situated near a hiking trail Tuesday, April 8, 2025, in West Des Moines, Iowa. Angela Major/WPR

Microsoft scraps plans for Caledonia data center site, working to find an alternate location

FILE - People leave the The BlackRock investment company in the Hudson Yards neighborhood of New York, Tuesday, March 14, 2023. (AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey, File)

Private equity sees profits in power utilities as electric bills rise and Big Tech seeks more energy

Matthew Crowe press conference

Data center interior

Pre-development agreement for data center, mayor's "Pause" memorandum

Dozens of concerned citizens gathered Tuesday at Jake’s Supper Club in Menomonie, to discuss how to oppose a proposed $1.6 billion proposed data center in the city. Peter Gruetzmacher, who owns the restaurant, is critical of secrecy surrounding the proposal and how quickly the Menomonie City Council approved an annexation petition needed to build it. Photo courtesy of Peter Gruetzmacher

Menomonie mayor defends move to halt massive data center project

Buddy McCartney watches hundreds of trucks pass by his home in Holly Ridge, La., on their way to what will become Meta's largest data center, Monday, Aug. 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Sophie Bates)

Louisiana's $3B power upgrade for Meta project raises questions about who should foot the bill

Press release from Alderperson Crowe on tonight's City Council meeting

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