Planned Port Washington data center operator continues buying land. Sales total $12.3 million
The site for a massive proposed data center would reach Lake Drive and County Highway LL in the town of Port Washington. More land sales are surfacing to accommodate Vantage Data Centers' complex planned in the town of Port Washington.
Those sales now total $12.3 million for 269 acres, according to several deeds posted online by the Wisconsin Department of Revenue on June 26 and June 27.
That's an average of just more than $45,700 per acre. Most of the land, which is along Highland Drive, is used for farming.
The parcels were sold to VDC Wisco Realty Investments 1 LLC. It shares an address with Vantage's Denver corporate headquarters.
A Vantage executive didn't respond to a request for more information.
Vantage was identified in June as the future operator of the proposed 3.5-gigawatt data center campus — to be among the largest such centers in the United States.
The campus is to include 11 data center buildings and five substations under conceptual plans approved by the City of Port Washington — which plans to annex the site.
The campus would initially total 1,600 acres, with around 300 acres for future development phases, said city Plan Commission documents.
The first phase is 568 acres. It's to be completed in 2027 by Cloverleaf Infrastructure, the firm developing the data center for Vantage.
The project site is north of the Port Washington city limits. It's bordered by I-43 to the southeast, Dixie Road to the north and the Ozaukee Interurban Trail to the west.
(This story was updated to correct inaccurate information on how much land was sold).
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This article originally appeared on Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Port Washington data center land sales now total $12.3 million
