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Residents’ concerns over rumored AI data center reshape Wisconsin community
Residents in Manitowoc County, Wisconsin are mobilizing early against rumored AI data center plans, with concerns centering on land use,...
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Lowell, Michigan Residents challenge Microsoft’s AI data center plan
Residents in Lowell, Michigan are pushing back hard on a proposed Microsoft data center that would likely support AI workloads,...
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Packed city hall shows deep local doubts about Pekin, Illinois data center
Pekin, Illinois residents are pushing back on a proposed data center, packing city hall even without the project on the...
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Balancing AI data center growth, labor concerns, and grid impacts in Wisconsin
Wisconsin’s Assembly Bill 840 tightens rules on new data centers by forcing closed-loop cooling, mandatory water reporting to the DNR,...
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Secrecy around massive Wisconsin data centers reshapes communities before input
Meta, OpenAI/Oracle/Vantage, Microsoft and QTS are driving a $57 billion wave of hyperscale data center builds across Wisconsin, with single...
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Weighing AI data center tradeoffs before Pekin, Illinois town hall discussion
Pekin, Illinois is weighing a data center on a 1,000‑acre site intended to become a technology park, but local opposition...
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Pennsylvania farmer Turned Down Lucrative Data Center Deal to Permanently Preserve Farmland
Data center developers offered a Pennsylvania farmer over $15 million, or about $60,000 per acre, to convert two contiguous farms...
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Michigan Residents challenge Lyon Township data center plan over power, water
A proposed Verrus “Project Flex” data center campus in Lyon Township, Michigan has conditional planning approval but is facing organized...
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Indiana pause on data center annexation highlights AI infra pushback
Shelbyville, Indiana just put a 30-day pause on annexing 429 acres for a Prologis-led data center, signaling local resistance can...
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Promises on data center ring hollow without binding safeguards for New Jersey Residents
Residents in Vineland packed a town hall to question DataOne’s proposed AI-focused data center, drilling into water, power, noise, and...