"Companies typically don’t make announcements about building community trust unless those communities are already pushing ...

The term "hyperscale" is a new category for infrastructure in Wisconsin -- it refers to data center projects that are significantly larger than anything ...

The 'gold rush' underway has some concerned that in quickly building hyperscale data centers, thoughtful decision-making is ...

We Energies proposes a plan to shield Wisconsin ratepayers from hundreds of millions in data center power line costs.

The legislation, which has garnered bipartisan support, was originally brought forward following a report from Wisconsin ...

The Midwest’s grid operator reversed course on a key transmission project, marking a victory for Wisconsin’s largest transmission developer.

Wisconsin families finance data center infrastructure for years before the data center takes a single kilowatt of power.

BEAVER DAM — How did a $1 billion, 520-acre data center proposed by one of the world’s richest companies go unnoticed in tiny Beaver Dam, Wisconsin? A key reason: In a city that lists “communication ...

Whatever your personal feelings on data centers, the general tide of sentiment is turning against them. New York legislators just introduced a strict piece of legislation that would put a three-year ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As power-hungry data centers proliferate, states are searching for ways to protect utility customers from the steep costs of ...

Organizers gather in Menomonie, Wisconsin in early December, 2025 to protest against a $1.6 billion data center proposal in their community. Residents’ concerns over data center development in rural ...

This story was produced andoriginally published by Wisconsin Watch, a nonprofit, nonpartisan newsroom. It was made possible bydonors like you. How did a $1 billion, 520-acre data center proposed by ...