Microsoft’s new 15-year electric service contract for its Mount Pleasant data center includes a provision Wisconsin regulators previously rejected. Where should data centers look for power? We Energies argued that those plants should be located as close as possible to the data centers they would serve. Ratepayer advocates and clean energy groups criticized the plan, arguing it would limit data centers’ access to wind energy. Microsoft has already signed up to purchase electricity from the planned Red Oak Ridge Energy Center in Kenosha County.