The small Wisconsin city that defeated a giant data center

Tonic for tumultuous times.

Developers are ambushing unsuspecting towns with huge, warehouse-like structures to power the AI revolution. But one picturesque little Wisconsin city cracked the code. Hear the story of how they stopped a massive data center in its tracks –– and wrote a playbook for other towns that want to do the same.

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