{"id":136065,"date":"2025-11-12T17:57:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T17:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/136065\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T17:57:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T17:57:10","slug":"meta-pledges-1-billion-to-build-ai-data-center-in-wisconsin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/136065\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta Pledges $1 Billion to Build AI Data Center in Wisconsin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/META:US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">Meta Platforms Inc.<\/a> is spending more than $1 billion to build a data center in Wisconsin that will power artificial intelligence work, its latest investment in the infrastructure needed for the fast-moving AI race. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">The 700,000 square-foot data center will be located in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin \u2014 a small city north of Madison and Milwaukee, Meta said Wednesday in a statement. It is expected to be operational in 2027, and support about 100 full-time jobs. Meta said it will work with the local utility, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/LNT:US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">Alliant Energy<\/a>, and underwrite $200 million in energy infrastructure investments to support the data center, including transmission lines and network upgrades. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Meta Platforms Inc. is spending more than $1 billion to build a data center in Wisconsin that will&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":136066,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[220,218,219,15704,4800,22350,61,4082,60,150,61794,39523,39644,80,19721],"class_list":{"0":"post-136065","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-chief-executive-officer","12":"tag-cities","13":"tag-executives","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-infrastructure","16":"tag-ireland","17":"tag-jobs","18":"tag-mark-elliot-zuckerberg","19":"tag-meta-platforms-inc-class-a","20":"tag-milwaukee","21":"tag-technology","22":"tag-wisconsin"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136065\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}