Social media giant Meta has officially announced a data center in Wisconsin.

“Meta is thrilled to announce that Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, will be home to our next state-of-the-art data center — the 26th in our United States data center fleet and 30th in the world,” the company said this week.

The $1 billion campus will span more than 700,000 sq ft and be optimized for AI workloads. Groundwork has reportedly already begun, but timelines for delivery weren’t shared.

Beaver Dam is a city in Dodge County, along Beaver Dam Lake and the Beaver Dam River, around 65 miles northwest of Milwaukee.

News that Meta was targeting a development in Beaver Dam surfaced in April. It is the company’s first campus in the state.

In February, a company working through the Degas LLC affiliate was seeking to invest around $567 million developing a data center campus on a 520-acre site previously marketed as the Beaver Dam Commerce Park.

“Beaver Dam stood out as an outstanding location for Meta to call home for a number of reasons,” the company noted.

“This vibrant city has robust access to reliable infrastructure, a skilled workforce, and the local partners have been instrumental in propelling this project forward. We are thrilled to contribute to Beaver Dam's economic growth and technological advancement, fostering a future of shared success.”

The social media firm noted it was partnering with conservation group Ducks Unlimited and other partners to restore 570 acres of biodiverse wetland and prairie, 175 acres of which will be deeded to Ducks Unlimited.

As well as offsetting its energy use with renewable power, Meta also said it aims to be water positive, restoring more water in the area than the campus will consume.

Meta's capex spend for 2025 is expected to be $72bn, while CFO Susan Li told investors last month that this figure was likely to rise “significantly” in 2026, with the company set to “invest aggressively” in data centers.

Meta has around 30 data center campuses in operation or development globally. The company recently announced plans to invest $600 billion in its data center build out. CEO Mark Zuckerberg said back in July the company was building “several multi-gigawatt clusters,” including at its existing campus in New Albany, Ohio, and a planned one in Louisiana known as Hyperion.