Top Data Center News for 30th March - 4th April, 2026
April 06, 2026
Microsoft Azure
Microsoft has officially withdrawn its plans for the "Project Nova" data center in Caledonia, Wisconsin, following significant community opposition regarding the project's impact on agricultural land and the environment. The proposed 244-acre campus, which included three data centers and a substation, had faced strong scrutiny from local residents. Citing "community feedback," Microsoft scrapped the plan in October 2025 and withdrew its rezoning application. The company confirms it is still committed to investing in Southeast Wisconsin and will work with local leaders to identify an alternate site in the area, but this decision does not impact its ongoing data center projects in nearby Mount Pleasant and Kenosha.
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| 6.65 miles | Expedient Franklin |
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| 6.65 miles | StratCap: 4777 Ironwood |
StratCap’s data center real estate division, StratCap Data Centers, announced today that it completed the acquisition of a 28,500 square foot (2,650 sqm) data center that is fully leased on a triple-net basis located outside Milwaukee in Franklin.
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| 6.88 miles | MilwaukeeColo | |
| 9.54 miles | Hyperscale Data Center Request Dataset |
In 2024, Microsoft acquired 70.9 acres of mostly vacant farm land for $12.75 million from the Thomas A. Hribar Sr. Revocable Trust in Racine County, Wisconsin.
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| 9.67 miles | Hyperscale Data Center Request Dataset |
In 2024, Microsoft acquired 28.6 acres for $5.73 million from Randall and Louise Borgardt in Racine County, Wisconsin.
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| 10.03 miles | Hyperscale Data Center Request Dataset |
In 2024, Microsoft acquired one acre for $900,000 from Ronald Smith in Racine County, Wisconsin.
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| 10.10 miles | Hyperscale Data Center Request Dataset |
In 2024, Microsoft acquired 5.9 acres for $7.3m from Randall and Louise Borgardt in Racine County, Wisconsin.
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| 10.14 miles | Hyperscale Data Center Request Dataset |
In 2024, Microsoft bought this parcel from Peter Zenner Family Farm LLC for $43.4 million.
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| 10.19 miles | Hyperscale Data Center Request Dataset |
Microsoft has purchased another 32 acres of undeveloped land at 12721 Louis Sorenson Road in Mount Pleasant.
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| 10.24 miles | Hyperscale Data Center Request Dataset | |
| 10.30 miles | Hyperscale Data Center Request Dataset | |
| 10.37 miles | Hyperscale Data Center Request Dataset |
In early 2026, Microsoft received approval to establish a further 15 data centers in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin.
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| 10.52 miles | Hyperscale Data Center Request Dataset | |
| 10.61 miles | Hyperscale Data Center Request Dataset | |
| 10.63 miles | Hyperscale Data Center Request Dataset |
Microsoft acquired two tracts totaling 85 acres at 7905 and 8537 Braun Road, Mount Pleasant, for $24.1m from West Road Investments LLC.
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| 10.71 miles | Hyperscale Data Center Request Dataset | |
| 10.74 miles | Hyperscale Data Center Request Dataset | |
| 10.77 miles | Hyperscale Data Center Request Dataset | |
| 10.79 miles | Hyperscale Data Center Request Dataset |
Microsoft bought 50.4 acres, at 4912 90th St., from Lake Forest, Illinois-based Espy Farms LLC for $14.3 million.
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| 10.83 miles | Hyperscale Data Center Request Dataset | |
| 11.34 miles | Hyperscale Data Center Request Dataset |
The Wisconsin facility was first announced in March 2023 and is set on a 315-acre parcel.
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| 11.35 miles | Hyperscale Data Center Request Dataset | |
| 11.52 miles | Hyperscale Data Center Request Dataset |
Microsoft has completed the purchase of an additional 1,000 acres of land for its Mount Pleasant data center campus in Racine County, Wisconsin.
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| 11.70 miles | Foxconn Industrial Internet Wisconsin | |
| 13.30 miles | TierPoint Milwaukee-Burnham |
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| 14.42 miles | TSR 324 E Wisconsin | |
| 14.42 miles | Cogent: 324 E Wisconsin | |
| 14.43 miles | Netwurx 324 E Wisconsin | |
| 14.43 miles | 1547: Wells Building | |
| 14.43 miles | Windstream Milwaukee |
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| 14.86 miles | Vaultas Milwaukee | |
| 15.41 miles | Data Holdings Milwaukee |
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| 15.66 miles | Hyperscale Data Center Request Dataset |
Microsoft has acquired 240 additional acres in Wisconsin for data centers, near its Mount Pleasant project that was paused in early 2025.
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| 17.85 miles | Windstream Brookfield |
Microsoft uses Containers (called ITPACs) to build out its data centers. These Containers are Shipping Containers fitted with all the necessary climate control, networking, server racks and other hardware necessary to be a “mini” data center all in one.
An Azure region is a set of data centers deployed within a latency-defined perimeter and connected through a dedicated regional low-latency network.
With more global regions than any other cloud provider, Azure gives customers the flexibility to deploy applications where they need to. Azure is generally available in 46 regions around the world, with plans announced for 8 additional regions.
An Azure geography is a discrete market, typically containing two or more regions, that preserves data residency and compliance boundaries.
Geographies allow customers with specific data-residency and compliance needs to keep their data and applications close. Geographies are fault-tolerant to withstand complete region failure through their connection to our dedicated high-capacity networking infrastructure.
Availability Zones are physically separate locations within an Azure region. Each Availability Zone is made up of one or more data centers equipped with independent power, cooling, and networking.
Availability Zones allow customers to run mission-critical applications with high availability and low-latency replication.
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