Vantage: Port Washington Campus

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Vantage: Port Washington Campus

Year Planned: 2028
Utility Provider: We Energies
Ownership: Vantage Data Centers owns the building.
Lot Size: 672 acres

Sites leasing space from Vantage Data Centers:

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Site History

  • 2025: Vantage bought the Port Washington land assembled by Cloverleaf Infrastructure. The city annexed part of it in May.
  • August 2025: The city approved a development agreement for at least $8 billion of investment on 672 acres.
  • October 2025: Vantage, OpenAI and Oracle named Lighthouse a Stargate site.
  • November 2025: The city created Tax Increment District No. 5 for the project.
  • December 2025: Construction began.
  • June 2026: Wisconsin DNR issued air permits for the campus's emergency generators.
  • October 2026: A settlement with environmental groups kept the permits in place.

Project Profile

  • Owner and operator: Vantage Data Centers
  • Tenant: Oracle, for OpenAI's Stargate program
  • Site: 672 acres between Highland Drive and Lake Drive
  • Buildings: four single-story data centers, two of about 719,000 sq ft and two of about 560,000 sq ft, plus an operations center, a warehouse and a 45-acre substation site
  • Schedule: buildings 1 to 3 in the third quarter of 2028, building 4 in the fourth quarter of 2028
  • Grid: We Energies service; ATC plans new 345 kV lines and the Decker substation, pending state approval

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Sites within 15 miles of Vantage: Port Washington Campus

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0.01 miles Center BetaInterested in this information?Contact us Data center facility details are available on request.Interested in this information?Contact us
0.90 miles Vantage: Port Washington Expansion
Vantage Data Centers owns about 972 acres north of its Lighthouse campus in Port Washington, Wisconsin, land first assembled by Cloverleaf Infrastructure. Vantage has said it has no current data center plans for this land.
0.91 miles North PointInterested in this information?Contact us Data center facility details are available on request.Interested in this information?Contact us
18.20 miles FIS: Brown Deer
FIS owns a data center on its 20-acre former Metavante campus at 4900 West Brown Deer Road in Brown Deer, Wisconsin, north of Milwaukee. Ascent operates the facility.

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Vantage is a wholesale datacenter provider operating in the Silicon Valley and Quincy, Washington markets.

Vantage was acquired by Digital Bridge Holdings LLC from Silver Lake Partners in January 2017.

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