QTS Dane County Hyperscale Campus (DeForest)
QTS Data Centers · DeForest, WI · United States
Facility record
- Lifecycle
- CancelledSource-reported lifecycle
- Location precision
- approximate
- Address as listed
- Not published
- Coordinates
- 43.2428, -89.3401
- Serving utility, source-reported
- Alliant Energy
- Operational capacity, source-reported
- Not published
- Planned capacity, source-reported
- Not published
- Source record updated
- 2026-10-28
Source-reported capacity; not metered consumption. Review underlying documents and notes. Planned capacity may include future phases and is not added to operational capacity here. The source may use facility, grid-feed or IT capacity definitions; consult the linked documents.
Coordinate precision is a source label, not an independent parcel survey. A marker does not confirm utility territory or establish an effect on residential bills.
Reported lifecycle history
- Proposed
QTS publicly announced the Dane County hyperscale campus; zoning and annexation applications submitted to DeForest in November 2025
Underlying source - Cancelled
Village of DeForest declared the proposal not feasible; QTS withdrew all applications after the Village Board signaled a 7-0 rejection of annexation. WI DOA separately found the annexation not in the public interest.
Underlying source
Source notes
Cancelled: QTS withdrew Jan 28-29 2026 after DeForest found the proposal not feasible and the Village Board signaled a 7-0 rejection of the required annexation; WI DOA found the 1,572.5-acre annexation petition not in the public interest. Active footprint was 650 acres (five buildings). Capacity omitted: no source discloses facility IT load; the 750 MW figure was a grid renewable-energy-credit commitment via Alliant, not the campus draw. Investment omitted: the $12B figure is secondary press only (QTS said 'multibillion-dollar') and unrealized. Projected 5,000+ construction and 'hundreds' of permanent jobs were never realized (project cancelled). The $50M community commitment was a QTS-to-county pledge, not a government subsidy. Coordinates are the DeForest centroid.
Alliant Energy confirmed as utility. QTS proposed enabling ~750 MW of new renewables on Alliant's grid via RECs - a grid-level commitment, not the facility's power draw. Facility IT load never disclosed.
Sources and provenance
- QTS advances plans for Dane County campus - official press release · source retrieved 2026-07-07
- QTS plans multibillion-dollar data center campus in Dane County · source retrieved 2026-07-07
- Village of DeForest - QTS project public engagement portal · source retrieved 2026-07-07
- QTS drops plan for data center near Madison, Wisconsin · source retrieved 2026-07-07
- DeForest cancels $12 billion QTS data center plan · source retrieved 2026-07-07
- QTS withdraws data center project in Village of DeForest · source retrieved 2026-07-07
- QTS DeForest, Wisconsin - Baxtel facility record · source retrieved 2026-07-07
- HIFLD Electric Retail Service Territories (ORNL/DOE-CESER, 2023-08 vintage) · source retrieved 2026-07-23
Power Wars capture: 2026-11-02. Compute Atlas, CC BY 4.0. Entries are not independently verified by Power Wars unless stated.