STOP THE MENOMONIE DATA CENTER
Informing Dunn County, WI
On June 18th, 2025, Balloonist LLC. and six land owners filed a petition for direct annexation by unanimous approval for the six land owners located along County Hwy B - between 650th Avenue and 690th Avenue in the Town of Red Cedar.
This was approved by the Menomonie City Council on August 4th, 2025.
What is a data center?
A data center is a facility that houses servers and networking equipment to store and process data.
Large data centers can consume as much electricity as a medium sized town and often use tens of thousands of gallons of water per day for cooling.
The proposed site in Menomonie, WI, is estimated to use 75,000 gallons of water per day. How much water will actually be used is unknown at this time, nor is there any way to monitor water usage.
Environmental concerns are noise pollution, light pollution, and wastewater management.
This specific project is estimated up to 1,000 workers during the initial construction phase, 50-75 permanent high paying jobs (many of which are often remote), and then 200-300 contract employees for things like security, landscaping, janitorial etc.
Any donations will help go towards things like signs, flyers, ads, and any other expenses that we may incur during our fight against this data center.
Contact your city council, town, and county board members letting them know how you feel about this project.
Our mission is to inform as many members of the community as possible about this data center and show Balloonist LLC that they are not welcome here in Menomonie.