Developers using a Delaware LLC tied to Cloverleaf Infrastructure are quietly offering up to $120,000 per acre for rural land in Greenleaf, likely for an AI-capable data center.
The pattern mirrors Meta’s Beaver Dam playbook, where a shell LLC secured approvals before the hyperscaler was named, signaling this could be another large, GPU-centric build under wraps.
Local officials were caught flat-footed, learning about the project only as residents started calling in, which suggests the developer is moving faster on land assembly than on transparent engagement or infrastructure planning.
Residents and a nearby winery are pushing back hard, citing loss of rural character, but the article doesn’t address core infra questions like grid capacity, substation buildout, water use, or transmission upgrades that a serious AI data center would require.
Wisconsin is emerging as a new data center frontier with lower land costs and growing hyperscale interest, but this story shows how land banking and opaque LLC structures are now standard operating procedure for large AI infrastructure projects.
For AI infra watchers, the value here is in tracking Cloverleaf/Bear Creek’s moves as an early signal of where the next wave of power-hungry, GPU-heavy capacity may land and how communities are likely to react.
Source: Mysterious land offers in rural Brown County raise concerns about possible data center – WPR
