Proposed-site record

DeForest QTS Data Center

Media Monitoring lead with medium location confidence. Use the linked sources to verify status, public money, NDA/secrecy, water, and power details before treating this as a fully documented local record.

Blocked or pausedconfirmedHigh concern

Site Snapshot

Location
DeForest, Dane County, Wisconsin
Operator / sponsor
Unknown operator
Status / stage
Blocked or paused · blocked / paused
Scale
Hyperscale (100-999 MW); 1400 acres
Reported project context; confirm whether any MW figure is requested, approved, energized, IT load, generation, or ultimate buildout before comparing it with another record.Capacity reading: Project-scale context · MW type not established · Site area

Compute Workload

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Undisclosed / unknownUnknown

No source-backed workload, customer, hardware, or training/inference allocation is attached to this record yet.

Workload classification remains unknown in the reviewed record.

Water

Water source, cooling method, withdrawal permits, and wastewater impacts need local sourcing.

Power

Source reviewed September 9, 2026: the Town of Vienna identifies the QTS proposal as withdrawn, and the Village of DeForest's January 2026 materials describe a proposed campus on approximately 1,570 acres while annexation and urban-service processes were still under consideration. The Village later stated the project was not feasible and QTS withdrew. No reviewed source establishes a numeric utility load, requested or approved capacity, generation capacity, energized capacity, or data-center IT load; the dataset's project-scale MW field remains unclassified.

Bloom / Fuel Cells

No fuel-cell or Bloom Energy source is attached to this project yet.

NDA / Secrecy

No NDA reported

Missing NDA / secrecy, WaterFields with source leads: Public money, Power
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