Microsoft’s Mount Pleasant, WI data center campus is now assessed at about $1.224 billion, making it the largest taxpayer in Racine County starting in 2026.
This build effectively replaces Foxconn as the region’s flagship mega-project, but with a clearer, utility-style tax and infrastructure footprint.
A $19.75 million annual property tax bill signals a large, long-lived AI and cloud footprint, not a speculative pilot site.
The valuation implies substantial GPU-capable data hall buildout, heavy power provisioning, and long-term grid and cooling investments.
Local governments get predictable revenue, while Microsoft secures another Midwestern hub to backstop AI and cloud capacity.
The scale here underlines how hyperscaler AI facilities are reshaping local tax bases as much as they reshape power and land use.
Worth a click if you track where serious AI data center money is actually landing and how it shows up on municipal balance sheets.
Source: Huge Microsoft data center will push past Foxconn as top taxpayer
