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Pewaukee Data Center

W237N1500 Busse Road · Waukesha, Waukesha County, WI

Source: OpenStreetMap

Pewaukee Data Center is a mapped data center in Waukesha County, WI, operated by Prime Data Centers. DataCentersExposed has documented a 47,298 sq ft footprint at this site.

Reporting by · Updated Jun 14, 2026

Real parent
Prime Data Centers
Operator
Prime Data Centers
Est. capacity
~5-20 MW
Footprint
47,298 sq ft
Utility
Wisconsin Electric Power Co
Grid
MISO
Attribution & capacity confidence:mediumprimary source
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Most sites are mapped — located but awaiting a second source. How we verify

Dot size = disclosed capacity (MW). Smallest = undisclosed, not small.

Overview

source: link

Pewaukee Data Center is a mapped colocation site in Waukesha, Waukesha County, Wisconsin, run by Prime Data Centers. Its reported footprint is 47,298 square feet. The site draws power from Wisconsin Electric Power Co, also known as WE Energies, inside the MISO grid.

Operator chain

The grid behind this site, right now

source: MISO · gridstatus
Clean right now
54%
Fossil right now
42%
Grid operator
MISO
  • Wind21.6%
  • Natural Gas21.4%
  • Coal20.5%
  • Solar18.4%
  • Nuclear14.1%
  • Imports2.2%
  • Other1.8%

Real-time generation mix for the MISO grid this site draws from, as of Jun 16, 2026, 4:35 PM. ISO-wide, not this facility's own metering. Source: gridstatus.

Tax breaks & subsidies

source: Good Jobs First / GASB 77

No per-deal tax break is linked to this site yet. No state discloses the recipient of a data-center abatement at the facility level, so per-site deals are rare in the public record. If you have a development agreement or board resolution for this site, send it to us.

Statewide cost of this incentive

Wisconsin reported $40M in Qualified Data Centers sales/use tax exemption (Wis. Stat. § 77.54(70)) for FY2024 (Wisconsin Department of Revenue). Program-wide, not attributable to this site.

source · All Wisconsin subsidies →

Water use

No public record of this facility's water use. We check state withdrawal reporting for self-supplied sites; municipally supplied sites only become visible through a public-records request to the local water utility — a per-facility request tool is coming. If you have a utility document for this site, send it to us.

EPA permits & violations

source: EPA ECHO

No reported violations as of last sync.

Air quality near this site

source: AirNow
48
O3
Good
46
PM2.5
Good
20
PM10
Good

Air Quality Index from the nearest AirNow reporting area (Milwaukee-Ozaukee), as of 2026-06-10. Regional context — not this facility's own emissions.

Who lives nearby

source: Census ACS 2023
Median household income
$77K
People of color
12%
Below poverty
1%
Tract population
3,023

Demographics of the census tract this facility sits in (American Community Survey 5-year estimates). Environmental-justice context for who bears the local impacts.

Nearest school

source: HIFLD / NCES

The nearest public school, Banting Elementary in Waukesha, is 1.7 mi from this site (512 students).

Schools are sensitive receptors for the noise, backup-generator exhaust, and traffic a large data center brings. Straight-line distance to the nearest public school (HIFLD/NCES, US public schools only).

Hearings timeline

No public-hearing records linked to this site yet. We surface planning-commission and board-of-supervisors dates when a record names a facility. If you know of a hearing on this site, tell us.