Mount Pleasant Approves Site Plans for 15 Microsoft Data Centers

Mount Pleasant’s village board has unanimously approved the site plans for Microsoft’s expansion of its sprawling data center development in Racine County.

There was little pushback from the community before the board’s decision on Monday night, a far cry from other proposed data center developments across the state.

The tech giant plans to build 15 additional data centers in Mount Pleasant as part of two new campuses worth more than $13 billion. The expansion comes as the tech giant is already investing more than $7 billion at two other data center campuses in the village.

The board’s vote came after the village’s plan commission unanimously recommended approval of…