Company looks to develop on at least part of multi-gigawatt site
Vantage has been named as at least one of the companies set to develop data centers in Port Washington, Wisconsin.
In January, powered land provider Cloverleaf Infrastructure was named as the company looking to develop on up to 1,900 acres north of the Ozaukee County town, west of I-43, and east of the Ozaukee Interurban Trail between Lake Drive and Dixie Road.
This week, BizJournal reported US operator Vantage as the company set to develop facilities on at least part of Cloverleaf’s land.
The company is “in the early stages of planning a data center campus in Port Washington,” Vantage VP of global marketing Mark Freeman told the publication. “Given the early stages of planning, we do not have any additional details to provide at this time.”
Port Washington Mayor, Ted Neitzke IV, told BJ: “We are aware of substantial progress in identifying the company that will build and operate the proposed Port Washington data center. We look forward to future discussions with the company and to introduce them to our community."
Cloverleaf has previously suggested construction on the site could start before the end of 2025. The company has suggested it could lease the site to multiple operators, potentially offering gigawatts of capacity. Microsoft has said it wasn’t in the running to develop in Port Washington.
Founded last year by Brian Janous, the former head of energy at Microsoft, Cloverleaf is a developer of large-scale digital infrastructure sites powered by low-carbon electricity. The company secured $300 million in funding from private equity investors NGP and Sandbrook Capital in July. This is the first project the company has gone public with.
Port Washington is located north of Milwaukee in eastern Wisconsin, on the shore of Lake Michigan. News that local officials were quietly in discussions with a company about a major development first surfaced in December – the site was reportedly previously earmarked for a chip fab, but the project fell through.
Vantage Data Centers currently operates 35 data center campuses in North America, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Australia. Its US sites include Arizona, California, Ohio, Virginia, and Washington state. More are in development in Indiana, Ohio, and Nevada.
