GOP gubernatorial nominee Tom Tiffany knocked David Crowley on data centers, charging his Dem rival’s call to power the projects with renewable energy would eat up about 100,000 acres to house the infrastructure.
Crowley in a statement last week laid down a series of conditions he would place on data centers. That includes a requirement that they provide “100% renewable energy, which will combat the amount of coal we burn.”
Tiffany, a GOP congressman from Minocqua, embarked on two days of stops yesterday that he called the “Protect Our Farmland Tour.” In a statement, Tiffany said the 100,000 acres in his estimate would be needed for just the data centers in Mount Pleasant and Port Washington.
“David Crowley’s plan to make Wisconsin a data center hub for the ‘entire globe’ comes with a price, and Wisconsin farmers and taxpayers would be left paying it,” Tiffany said.
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In a statement, Crowley accused Tiffany of selling out farmers by voting for the “Big Ugly Bill, allowing big tech companies to steamroll Wisconsin communities with little state oversight.”
“When I’m governor, I will utilize renewable energies to aggressively protect Wisconsin citizens from the abuses of these big tech billionaires and their unregulated data centers to stop them from poisoning our farmland, passing costs onto Wisconsinites, and destroying their way of life,” Crowley said.