Vantage

May 18, 2026

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Opposition Hits 70%. The Siting Playbook Just Got Three Items Longer.

But Brazoria County's "washing machine" complaints and Vantage's 1,200-acre, 1.4 GW Frontier campus outside Abilene show the friction is already here.

April 27, 2026

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Wisconsin Makes Hyperscalers Pay 100% of Their Own Generation Build

Wisconsin's Public Service Commission ruled today that Microsoft's Mount Pleasant campus and Vantage's Port Washington facility must cover 100% of construction costs for new We Energies generation tied to their load, plus transmission upgrades, with a minimum billing demand charge that floors transmission fees regardless of actual use.

April 24, 2026

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Cancellations Quadrupled. Abilene's 2.1 GW Answer Is Off the Grid.

Port Washington, Wisconsin voted 2-1 on April 7 to restrict new TIF districts for Vantage's $15 billion OpenAI-Oracle campus.

April 23, 2026

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Capital Front-Runs the Forecast: $2B Lands Before ERCOT Hits 367 GW

Risk: the NAACP has already sued xAI over Memphis turbine operations, and Wisconsin's DNR is poised to approve 45 backup diesel generators (87 MW combined) at Vantage's Port Washington campus using only annual NOx modeling, skipping the 2010 one-hour standard.

April 9, 2026

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Nine Months to Shape the Rules Texas Is About to Write

Wisconsin regulators don't yet understand the water demands of three new hyperscale projects from Microsoft, Vantage, and Meta.