Top headline: Wisconsin State Journal
Photo credits: Village of DeForest
Bottom headline: Wisconsin State Journal
The owners of the land where a Virginia company hopes to build a massive data center near DeForest are now asking that nearly twice as much land be annexed into the village for the project than originally proposed.
The initial request to annex 615 acres from the town of Vienna for the $3 billion QTS Data Centers campus has now grown to 1,135 acres, according to a notice filed with DeForest by the landowners.
It was unclear Monday whether the request means the data center itself will be larger or whether the landowners merely wish to have more of their property absorbed into the village.
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More than $60 billion in data center projects have been blocked or delayed by this growing wave of local, bipartisan opposition. That’s according to a report from Data Center Watch.
“What was once quiet infrastructure is now a national flashpoint – and communities are pushing back,” the group says.
Just last week the Tucson City Council voted unanimously to reject the building of Project Blue, a massive data center tied to Amazon.
Opposition to data center development cuts across political lines, the Data Center Watch report found. Republican officials often raise concerns about tax incentives and energy grid strain, while Democrats tend to focus on environmental impacts and resource consumption. This cross-party resistance defies expectations and marks a rare area of bipartisan alignment in infrastructure politics.
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