Campus set to be hub for OpenAI, Oracle ‘Stargate’ program
Port Washington is moving forward with a tax incremental financing plan for a massive $15 billion data center campus despite pushback from local residents.
The Port Washington Common Council unanimously approved a resolution Tuesday to create Tax Incremental District, or TID, No. 5 for the data center campus.
The decision comes around two weeks after Vantage Data Centers, the developer behind the project, announced OpenAI and Oracle would be the users of the site as part of the companies’ Stargate program, a $500 billion national push to expand AI...
The Port Washington Common Council unanimously approved a resolution Tuesday to create Tax Incremental District, or TID, No. 5 for the data center campus.
The decision comes around two weeks after Vantage Data Centers, the developer behind the project, announced OpenAI and Oracle would be the users of the site as part of the companies’ Stargate program, a $500 billion national push to expand AI...
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With promises of millions of dollars in tax revenue, thousands of construction jobs and hundreds of full-time positions, QTS Data Centers has submitted plans for a data center campus in northern Dane County.
At the same time, the environmental group Clean Wisconsin claims QTS data center buildings will require “far more” energy than all the homes in the county combined and is calling for full transparency on its energy and environmental impacts as the project is evaluated.
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RSK: This will be worth watching. Since the city approved it despite the objections of many residents, other planned data centers will have a better shot at getting approval.
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