By Jordan Novet
Publication Date: 2026-01-27 01:39:00
The Microsoft data center campus, currently under construction, is reflected in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin, September 18, 2025.
Audrey Richardson | Reuters
Local officials have signed off on Microsoft’s plans to build 15 more data centers in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin, near an existing site that the technology company is expanding.
Additional data center capacity will allow Microsoft to recognize revenue that it has booked from OpenAI and other clients. Amazon, Google and Oracle are racing Microsoft to build data centers filled with Nvidia chips that can train and run generative artificial intelligence models.
Finding sites for these facilities can be challenging because utilities don’t always have the necessary energy available. And increasingly, people who live near prospective data center sites are mounting opposition campaigns.
Mount Pleasant homeowners and officials have generally welcomed Microsoft’s expansion in the village.
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