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Residents urge moratorium on AI/data centers, cite transparency, environmental and cost concerns
Summary
Several Kenosha residents urged the council to pause or block AI/data center projects, raising concerns about transparency, water and energy use, potential local cost shifts and environmental harms; one speaker called for an 18-month moratorium and specific project conditions.
Dozens of residents used the public-comment period at the Jan. 21 Kenosha Common Council meeting to press elected officials to halt or slow development of proposed AI and data center projects in the region.
Nicholas Pro Rock, who said he is running for alderman in District 9, urged the council to attend a Feb. 10 public hearing and to challenge proposed electricity discounts in a tariff that would benefit data centers. "It's called a tariff, but essentially in the tariff, it's discounts for the data centers," he told the council, and urged residents to "go speak out against it." He also pointed to a data center in Pleasant Prairie as an example of harms he said the city should study.
Sage Holloway told the council she…
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