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Kenosha’s City Hall was standing room only as residents packed the Common Council chambers to voice concerns on Microsoft’s proposed data center on the west side of the county on Nov. 17. Among many concerns, multiple citizen comments raised issues with transparency, environmental impacts and increased cost of living. Several people advocated for a vote […]

Vast fields of grass with generational history lay desolate. Lonely, abandoned houses sit in wait to be demolished. The land is fated to become an Artificial Intelligence Data Center. Where houses once stood, large warehouse-sized buildings will be constructed. Instead of the distant sound of tractors and combines running, it will be replaced with the […]

From the mysterious “Project Nova” to Microsoft backing down to community criticism, residents opposed to a data center in the small village of Caledonia were victorious. On Oct. 8, Microsoft announced it would no longer pursue 244 acres of land for a data center. The project was originally going to accompany the tech giant’s much […]

From Menomonie to Port Washington to Caledonia, tech companies have been eyeing Wisconsin towns and cities as sites for the next generation of artificial intelligence data centers – megastructures poised to drive the future of computing. While some mayors and community leaders welcomed the ventures, others have remained skeptical. Media Milwaukee interviewed two such leaders, […]

The AI data center surge has stoked fears in communities across the United States, not just for their insatiable energy requirements, but also for the dramatic economic impact they have on the communities they occupy. Port Washington, Wisconsin, a town of roughly 13,000, stands at a crossroads as the issue swiftly hits the mainstream. The […]

On the night of the Oct. 7 Port Washington Common Council meeting, hundreds of residents crowded the entrance, attempting to enter the chambers to express their concerns about the proposed Artificial Intelligence (AI) Data Center in Port Washington. Many were unable to get inside, and the media were barred from entering for more than 30 minutes after the meeting began.  […]

Earlier this year, the Port Washington Common Council announced its controversial partnership with Vantage Data Centers, based out of Denver, to build a new AI data center for OpenAI, north of the town. This announcement was met with uproar from residents in Port Washington and the surrounding communities with fear about how this data center […]

The City of Racine is being sued by Midwest Environmental Advocates on behalf of Milwaukee Riverkeeper after the city allegedly failed to deliver a document describing the estimated water usage at the then-proposed data center in Mount Pleasant under open records laws. Wisconsin law states that a response to a record request must be made […]

Milwaukee is struggling handling its lead crisis, with it devastating its most vulnerable residents and having long-lasting impacts on children. In recent studies, lead has been linked to criminal activity in Milwaukee. According to Amy Kalkbrenner, a professor of public health at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s Zilber College, lead primarily affects children’s brain cognitive abilities and […]

The first thing Daran Wiley wanted to be was an astrophysicist, according to his mother Rashawn McKenzie. He even dressed as one for a school event one year. “He came home and he was like, ‘Mom, I want to be an astrophysicist and if you don’t know what it means, it’s okay, I can tell […]

Madison, Wis- Morgan Geyser also known as the Slender-man attacker has been found in Posen, Illinois after cutting off her ankle monitor and fleeing from her group home in Madison, Wisconsin. Geyser was expected to appear in a hearing in Cook County after her arrest on Monday. A 42-year- old friend of Geyer’s who declined […]

MILWAUKEE-The 2025 Annual Security Report shows the effects of major crimes that occurred on the UW-Milwaukee campus. Burglaries, rape, domestic violence and car thefts have been shown as some of the most superior crimes around campus area, which were alarming to the UWM community. From 2022- 2024, the Milwaukee Police Department reported seven crimes were […]