When a secretive $1.6 billion data center proposal landed in Menomonie with almost no warning, residents had weeks to fight ...

In an April 7 referendum, Port Washington voters approved giving residents a say in approving tax incremental financing districts of more than $10 million. That only applies to future projects, not ...

Wisconsin residents testified to the DNR Tuesday against an air pollution permit for a controversial AI data center in Port ...

A Wisconsin city passed a referendum Tuesday targeting data center construction, requiring future large-scale projects that receive tax benefits to secure approval from local voters. Port Washington, ...

Residents of Port Washington, Wisconsin, have done something no other community in the country has done with data centers: ...

Port Washington, Wisconsin, became the first U.S. city to pass a referendum restricting AI data center development after a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A small Wisconsin city upended by a data center backed by President Donald Trump is set to vote Tuesday on a referendum that could ...

A Port Washington referendum that sprung from data center pushback, asking whether voters should approve major public financing, succeeded on April 7.

The Port Washington Fire Department said a boy was rescued from a house fire and taken to a hospital early Thursday morning, ...

The vote suggests ballot measures could become a powerful new tool for grassroots activists seeking to block data center projects.

While Port Washington is not the first city to advance or pass legislation regulating data centers, it is the first to pass a voter-approved referendum. A proposed moratorium on new data centers is ...