Data Centers

Data centers — their size and tremendous need of energy — are top of mind for many people. That includes in Beaver Dam, 70 miles northwest of Milwaukee, Meta's new 700,000 square foot data center campus. Thursday, state regulators OK'd Alliant Energy's contract to provide its energy needs.

"Companies typically don’t make announcements about building community trust unless those communities are already pushing back pretty hard," one environmental group says.

Port Washington voters on April 7 approved a ballot question that allows them to stop city officials from approving large tax incremental financing districts in future elections.

Marquette students are criticizing the university for its choice of Chris Duffey as the speaker at Marquette's 2026 graduation. Duffey oversees AI for Adobe.

Grant County officials in southwestern Wisconsin aren’t divulging the developer interested in a $1 billion data center in the town of Cassville.

Pros and cons continue to swirl around data centers — some in the planning stages, others already in motion in Wisconsin. A We Energies proposal is adding fuel to the fire. It would create a new energy rate for so-called “very large” customers, like data centers.

Kyle Cranmer, director of UW-Madison's Data Science Institute, weighs in on the spread of data centers in Wisconsin.

GOP lawmakers held press conferences around the state to introduce a data center regulation bill.

Whether to build more power plants in Wisconsin to serve a growing number of data centers is a tricky question, according to a new Wisconsin Policy Forum report.

We use data centers every day. So why are they so controversial in the communities where tech companies want to build them?