Microsoft built 5 data center campuses in this Iowa city. Here’s what Wisconsin can expect.

15 May 2025


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WPR reporters are diving into the development of data centers around Wisconsin and the impacts they could have on the communities where they’re being built and the state as a whole. This story is part four in a four-part series.

David Roach has lived on his family’s 40-acre farm in Cumming, Iowa for most of his life.  

His family has owned the property for over 100 years. 

His father was born there. His grandfather died there.

There’s a pond a few hundred feet from his back window. Sometimes, in the summer, the sun sets directly over it.

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