Meta is looking to spend up to $837 million on developing a data center in central Wisconsin.
As reported by Bloomberg, the company struck an inventive deal with the state of Wisconsin in February under an alias. Citing a "person familiar with the matter," the company behind the project is Meta.
Meta declined to comment to Bloomberg, while the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation said its “practice is to identify the companies it works with once a contract is approved.”
Meta's investment in the project is said to span multiple years. Details about the data center project have not been shared.
The company announced earlier this year that it intended to spend up to $65 billion in capex in 2025, with a focus on AI infrastructure. Part of that spend includes a $10bn data center in Richland Parish, northeast Louisiana. The company also has data centers across the Midwest in Iowa and Dekalb.
In the long term, CEO Mark Zuckerberg has said the company will spend "hundreds of billions of dollars" on AI infrastructure.
Microsoft is also developing a data center in Mount Pleasant in Wisconsin, though paused construction on part of the site earlier this year. The company also acquired 240 acres in Kenosha in January 2025. OpenAI is reportedly considering Wisconsin for its Stargate data center project.
This year has also seen plans for a 1,000-acre data center revealed by Cloverleaf, and a 520-acre data center in Beaver Dam for an unnamed end user revealed.
Wisconsin-based utility provider We Energies proposed a new electricity rate aimed at data center customers. While this would shield other ratepayers from the costs associated with the construction of power generation and electric infrastructure needed to support data centers, it could impact data center projects in the state.
