DAN ROCKEFELLER
SUSTAINABILITY
Vantage’ s Lighthouse Campus in Wisconsin, which is scheduled for completion in 2028, will make this hunt for pollen easier than ever for the rusty patched bumblebee.
“ The Lighthouse Campus is being developed on land previously used for intensive agriculture,” explains Dan Rockefeller, Ecologist and Managing Consultant at Ramboll.
“ Modern farming practices, ironically, can lead to a food desert for many pollinators. Even where flowering crops are present, bees require diverse, season-long floral resources to support nutrition, immune function and colony health.
“ When poor nutrition is combined with pesticide exposure, it can contribute to elevated colony stress and mortality.” Rather than merely minimising environmental harm, Vantage teamed up with Ramboll, a global architecture and engineering firm with Danish sustainability roots, to pursue a regenerative approach that has the potential to boost local biodiversity by up to 60 %, a significant step above the typical 10 % industry baseline. The goal is to enhance habitat quality and provide essential resources for native species – including those of conservation concern.
With four data centres managing 902MW of critical IT load, the 672- acre Lighthouse Campus will be an AI computing powerhouse.
But the company is not shying away from its environmental responsibility. In addition to its biodiversity goals, Vantage has committed to achieving water
DAN ROCKEFELLER
TITLE: ECOLOGIST AND MANAGING CONSULTANT
COMPANY: RAMBOLL
INDUSTRY: ARCHITECTURE AND ENGINEERING CONSULTANCY
Dan works with clients in the US and Europe to plan, measure and improve biodiversity outcomes across development, infrastructure, manufacturing and corporate sustainability programmes.
54 August 2026