Lawmakers debate data center guardrails, Microsoft aims to be ‘good neighbor’
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Aerial view of Microsoft's Fairwater AI data center project in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin. Microsoft image: https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2025/09/18/inside-the-worlds-most-powerful-ai-datacenter/
Two members of the Assembly’s Science, Technology, and AI Committee disagreed over how fast lawmakers should move on regulating data centers during a Madison luncheon.
Meanwhile, a Microsoft executive said during yesterday’s panel discussion the company aims to be a “good neighbor” as it moves ahead with plans to build 17 data centers in southeastern Wisconsin.
Reps. Darrin Madison, D-Milwaukee, a...
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