Wisconsin Watch has made a concerted effort to report on data centers for six months now. They have published major stories at WisconsinWatch.org and provided data center news nuggets in their Forward newsletter.

Data Center Coverage

Here’s a month-by-month summary of what they’ve reported. In January, Wisconsin Watch revealed that officials in at least four Wisconsin communities signed nondisclosure agreements that hid details of billion-dollar data center proposals from the public.

In February, they detailed how a $1 billion data center is being proposed for Grant County in the Driftless Area of southwest Wisconsin. In March, they reported that just three Wisconsin companies have done more than $1 billion in business supplying the facilities.

In April, they were the first to report on an official estimate that state government will forgo $2 billion in revenue because of a sales tax exemption for data centers that was adopted in 2023. In June, they spent months gathering behind-the-scenes details on what happened to the Driftless Area proposal.

In July, they detailed how land sales for the data center under construction in Port Washington turned homeowners and farmers into millionaires and, in some cases, created generation-changing wealth. More stories are in the works.

Original reporting: Wisconsin Watch — read the source article.