Microsoft is building one of its flagship AI data centers on the former Foxconn ground in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin, roughly 28 miles south of Milwaukee. The company has committed about $3.3 billion to the Racine County campus and put Walsh Construction in charge of the build.
Project Scope
The campus is designed for hyperscale AI and cloud workloads, the compute-dense kind that needs heavy power and cooling infrastructure. Alongside the halls themselves, Microsoft partnered with Gateway Technical College on a data center academy meant to train and certify more than 1,000 students over five years for jobs in the facility and the wider sector.
Why It Matters
This is the site that was supposed to be Foxconn’s flat-panel plant. Microsoft’s data center gives the land a second act and slots Wisconsin into the national AI buildout that’s soaking up power, concrete and electricians. The training academy is the tell: operators now treat workforce pipelines as part of the project scope, not an afterthought, because a finished data hall is useless without people to run it.
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Project Team & Details
| Owner / Client | Microsoft |
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| General Contractor | Walsh Construction |
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| Status | Under Construction |
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| Delivery Method | Design-Build |
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| Funding Source | Private |
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