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Residents’ concerns over rumored AI data center reshape Wisconsin community

Residents’ concerns over rumored AI data center reshape Wisconsin community

Melissa Palmer
January 27, 2026

Residents in Manitowoc County, Wisconsin are mobilizing early against rumored AI data center plans, with concerns centering on land use,...

Lowell, Michigan Residents challenge Microsoft’s AI data center plan

Lowell, Michigan Residents challenge Microsoft’s AI data center plan

Melissa Palmer
January 27, 2026

Residents in Lowell, Michigan are pushing back hard on a proposed Microsoft data center that would likely support AI workloads,...

Packed city hall shows deep local doubts about Pekin, Illinois data center

Packed city hall shows deep local doubts about Pekin, Illinois data center

Melissa Palmer
January 27, 2026

Pekin, Illinois residents are pushing back on a proposed data center, packing city hall even without the project on the...

Balancing AI data center growth, labor concerns, and grid impacts in Wisconsin

Balancing AI data center growth, labor concerns, and grid impacts in Wisconsin

Melissa Palmer
January 26, 2026

Wisconsin’s Assembly Bill 840 tightens rules on new data centers by forcing closed-loop cooling, mandatory water reporting to the DNR,...

Secrecy around massive Wisconsin data centers reshapes communities before input

Secrecy around massive Wisconsin data centers reshapes communities before input

Melissa Palmer
January 26, 2026

Meta, OpenAI/Oracle/Vantage, Microsoft and QTS are driving a $57 billion wave of hyperscale data center builds across Wisconsin, with single...

Weighing AI data center tradeoffs before Pekin, Illinois town hall discussion

Weighing AI data center tradeoffs before Pekin, Illinois town hall discussion

Melissa Palmer
January 26, 2026

Pekin, Illinois is weighing a data center on a 1,000‑acre site intended to become a technology park, but local opposition...

Pennsylvania farmer Turned Down Lucrative Data Center Deal to Permanently Preserve Farmland

Pennsylvania farmer Turned Down Lucrative Data Center Deal to Permanently Preserve Farmland

Melissa Palmer
January 23, 2026

Data center developers offered a Pennsylvania farmer over $15 million, or about $60,000 per acre, to convert two contiguous farms...

Michigan Residents challenge Lyon Township data center plan over power, water

Michigan Residents challenge Lyon Township data center plan over power, water

Melissa Palmer
January 23, 2026

A proposed Verrus “Project Flex” data center campus in Lyon Township, Michigan has conditional planning approval but is facing organized...

Indiana pause on data center annexation highlights AI infra pushback

Indiana pause on data center annexation highlights AI infra pushback

Melissa Palmer
January 22, 2026

Shelbyville, Indiana just put a 30-day pause on annexing 429 acres for a Prologis-led data center, signaling local resistance can...

Promises on data center ring hollow without binding safeguards for New Jersey Residents

Promises on data center ring hollow without binding safeguards for New Jersey Residents

Melissa Palmer
January 22, 2026

Residents in Vineland packed a town hall to question DataOne’s proposed AI-focused data center, drilling into water, power, noise, and...