Meta is building a 700,000 square foot, LEED Gold data center campus at Alliant Energy's Commerce Park in Beaver Dam, its first Wisconsin site, due to open in 2027. Alliant's individual contract with Meta affiliate Degas LLC, approved by regulators in May 2026, covers 220 megawatts of power over a 10 year term. The campus uses dry cooling to cut water use, and Meta is putting 15 million dollars into Alliant's Hometown Care Energy Fund for local energy bill assistance.
Data centers in Dodge County
We track 2 projects inside Dodge County and 0 more within 25 miles of it. For a distance-specific answer, check your own address.
In Dodge County
An operating Meta data center site in Dodge County, WI, mapped in OpenStreetMap and the IM3 Open Source Data Center Atlas.
Power bills in Dodge County
Most of the county is served by Alliant Energy.
Meta says the contract means other Alliant customers will not pay for the energy used by its Beaver Dam data center, though consumer advocates say the secrecy around the deal makes that hard for the public to independently verify. Alliant Energy (Wisconsin Power and Light) general rate case for 2026 and 2027 (docket 6680-UR-125) raised residential rates 5.4%, decided November 6, 2025: about $7 to $10 a month on a $160 bill. Transmission upgrades like this are typically billed to every electric customer in the state through transmission charges, not just to the data center that made the new line necessary, which is why the cost allocation question matters for ordinary bills even outside the four counties involved.
Alliant Energy's Wisconsin utility asked for an electric increase of about 8.3 percent in 2026 and 5.7 percent in 2027, plus a smaller natural gas increase, citing grid investment. The Public Service Commission approved a unanimous settlement, trimming the increase to 5.4 percent in 2026 and 5 percent in 2027 on electric rates, which works out to about 9.57 dollars a month more on a typical residential bill in 2026 and 17.45 dollars a month more in 2027 compared with 2025.
Every Wisconsin rate case in dollars a month, with hearing dates: willmybillgoup.com, our rate case tracker.
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