Cassville, located in southwest Wisconsin in the Driftless area, is a possible site for a $1 billion data center, the Wisconsin State Journal reported.
It is the eighth major data center project proposed in Wisconsin, with one in DeForest recently rejected.
The town will know in the coming months if Grant County is still in consideration for the data center project.
It’s a rare move to be notified ahead of time of a data center possibility, with projects having been hidden behind NDAs and secrecy.
The announcement shows transparency.
“They’re casting a pretty wide net. Grant County just happens to be part of that net,” Ron Brisbois, executive director of the Grant County Economic Development Corp., told Wisconsin Watch. “It’s very, very preliminary.”
Brisbois said he was not asked to sign an NDA and met with a company, which he would not identify, in November before announcing at an open meeting in December that a $1 billion data center was being floated in Grant County.
Data center projects have sparked a lot of controversy in Wisconsin thanks to their power usage and economic effects.
