Ozaukee County, Wisconsin

County ranked by announced AI data-center load

1.0 GW Announced AI load

Campuses

Lead operator

Oracle

Resi rate Δ (We Energies)

+11.4%

Home price Δ (3y)

+13.7%

Property tax Δ (3y)

+3.3%

Population (2024 ACS)

93K

Median HH income (2024 ACS)

$96,996

Key takeaways

Ozaukee County has 92,345 residents and Port Washington the host city has 12,353. The Stargate Lighthouse build at 1.0 GW is the largest Oracle / OpenAI / Vantage commitment outside of Texas and Wisconsin's largest single data-center campus.Source: Census ACS 2023 B01003 (Ozaukee County, WI and Port Washington) + sources[0] (Wikipedia: Port Washington, Wisconsin) + app/county/wi-ozaukee.html
Median household income in Ozaukee County is $96,734, the highest in Wisconsin. 50.4% of residents over 25 hold a bachelor's degree, the second-highest in this batch behind Loudoun and Stafford.Source: Census ACS 2023 B19013, B15003 (FIPS 55089)
We Energies residential rates rose 11.4% from 2021 to 2023, the same delta hitting neighboring Racine County where Microsoft is spending $3.3 GW on the old Foxconn parcel. Ozaukee and Racine are now both We Energies hyperscaler counties and share the same rate-case cost-allocation question.Source: data/cache/utility_rate_yoy.csv (Wisconsin Electric Power Co, WI) + data/sites/data_centers.csv
Home prices in Ozaukee County rose 13.7% over three years on a $487,274 median sale price. Property tax assessments rose only 3.3% over the same window, a gap that suggests the assessor has not yet caught up to the market or to the Stargate land-acquisition signal.Source: data/cache/realestate_yoy.csv + data/cache/property_tax_yoy.csv (FIPS 55089)

Ozaukee County is 90.8% white, 3.6% Hispanic, 2.1% Asian, and only 1.5% Black, the whitest data-center county in Wisconsin and a sharp contrast against neighboring Racine's 10.6% Black share. The Stargate Lighthouse build is landing in the least-diverse hyperscaler county in the state.Source: Census ACS 2023 B02001, B03003 (FIPS 55089)
19.6% of Ozaukee workers are in manufacturing and only 4.6% of residents live below the poverty line. Unemployment is 2.5%, the tightest labor market in Wisconsin and matched only by Taylor TX in this batch.Source: Census ACS 2023 C24050, B17001, B23025 (FIPS 55089)
Median gross rent in Ozaukee County is $1,112 per month against a 72.8% owner-occupancy rate. 93.0% of households have a home broadband subscription, the highest broadband share in Wisconsin data-center counties.Source: Census ACS 2023 B25064, B25003, B28002 (FIPS 55089)
89.3% of Ozaukee residents lived in the same house one year earlier and only 5.7% of adults are veterans. The county is a stable bedroom commuter base for Milwaukee professionals, not a transient industrial workforce.Source: Census ACS 2023 B07001, B21001 (FIPS 55089)

Stargate Lighthouse — Oracle/OpenAI/Vantage · Port Washington, WI · 1.0 GW