Rock River Current
CHERRY VALLEY — A Microsoft data center plan that’s been in the works for more than two years is back before village officials as the technology giant asks to renew its expired special-use permit.
The company previously won village approval in late 2024 of a plan to construct six one-story data center buildings and two substations on more than 300 acres of land southwest of U.S. Route 20 and Wheeler Road in Boone County. That approval expired when Microsoft had not begun construction by the end of 2025, according to Village Administrator Jim Claeyssen…