How the Wisconsin governor’s race became a data center hate-off
The general election for Wisconsin governor is now a week old. But the past seven days of debate between the race’s Republican and Democratic candidates can be paraphrased in just two lines: “My opponent is a shill for Big Tech who wants to build data centers over Wisconinites’ farms, parks, preserves, graves — and, possibly, Lambeau Field.” “I know you are, but what am I?” The Republican nominee, Congressman Tom Tiffany, has been the aggressor in this argument.
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The general election for Wisconsin governor is now a week old. But the past seven days of debate between the race’s Republican and Democratic candidates can be paraphrased in just two lines: “My opponent is a shill for Big Tech who wants to build data centers over Wisconinites’ farms, parks, preserves, graves — and, possibly, Lambeau Field.” “I know you are, but what am I?” The Republican nominee, Congressman Tom Tiffany, has been the aggressor in this argument. Tiffany has branded his Democratic rival David Crowley as “Data Center David,” spotlighting the Milwaukee County Executive’s past support for turning Wisconsin into a “data hub” for “the entire globe.” In the Republican’s telling, Crowley is a corporate stooge eager to let Wisconsin’s “lakes run dry” and its “family farms” get “paved over,” just to generate higher profits for his Silicon Valley paymasters. Key takeaways • Republican Tom Tiffany has made data centers the focus of Wisconsin’s governor’s race.• But his policies on hyper scale development aren’t much different than David Crowley’s.• Some Wisconsin labor unions and municipalities benefit a lot from data center projects.• Crowley and Tiffany have held off on embracing a moratorium for that reason.
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- The general election for Wisconsin governor is now a week old. But the past seven days of debate between the race’s Republican and Democratic candidates can be paraphrased in just two lines: “My opponent is a shill for Big Tech who wants to build data centers over Wisconinites’ farms, parks, preserves, graves — and, possibly, Lambeau Field.” “I know you are, but what am I?” The Republican nominee, Congressman Tom Tiffany, has been the aggressor in this argument.
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