Proposed-site record
Menomonie annexed and rezoned approximately 324 acres for a potential Balloonist data center, but the mayor later put the proposal on hold. City records provide a 75,000-gallon-per-day closed-loop cooling estimate and utility-planning context; the dataset's hyperscale label remains unclassified, with no confirmed utility or IT-load capacity.
This panel tracks what the facility is for without assuming that every project is AI training, inference, or cloud capacity.
No source-backed workload, customer, hardware, or training/inference allocation is attached to this record yet.
Workload classification remains unknown in the reviewed record.Source leads point to attached records or reporting. They still need field-level review before being treated as verified evidence.
Source dataset project_cost field reports $1.6 billion; public funding records still need local review.
Source reviewed September 9, 2026: City of Menomonie staff reported that Balloonist proposed a closed-loop cooling system using approximately 75,000 gallons per day of municipal water and wastewater. This is a developer planning estimate cited in a city memorandum, not a permit, executed service quantity, measured withdrawal, consumption, or operating wastewater discharge.
Source reviewed September 9, 2026: the City of Menomonie says it does not operate an electric utility and that Balloonist was working with Xcel Energy and the Wisconsin Public Service Commission. The city later said the rezoning approval did not guarantee development, and the mayor announced the proposal was on hold. The dataset's hyperscale label remains unclassified project context; no utility load, interconnection, generation, energized capacity, or data-center IT load was disclosed.
No fuel-cell or Bloom Energy source is attached to this project yet.
No NDA reported
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