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Central Wisconsin lawmakers debate data-center guardrails as residents warn of energy and water impacts
Summary
At the legislative breakfast, lawmakers described bills to set guardrails on data-center energy and water use while local officials and IT veterans warned about the strain such facilities could place on municipal utilities and the limited local tax benefit.
Data centers and how to regulate them were a major point of debate at the Wisconsin Rapids legislative breakfast, with lawmakers and local officials offering competing views on economic opportunity and resource risk.
One legislator urged a measured approach and described proposed legislation that would set guardrails for energy and water usage by data centers, saying the aim is to use “data science and industry experts” to guide policy. “The only serious proposal on the table right now is AB 722 because it actually sets guardrails and uses data science and industry…
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