Why this site exists

In 2025, a large tech company wanted to turn the left image into the right image. We thought it was a pretty bad idea and we successfully fought them off. Since then, we’ve been trying to help other communities understand their own proposals, the risks that come with the rewards, and ultimately make their own fully-informed decisions, not hasty ones with too little information.

This site is a repository of both general purpose information on data centers as well as community-specific criticisms of proposals. Some of the information is specific to Wisconsin, but much generally applies to any location.

The crux of the arguments here against data centers in small communities are financial. Most community officials, elected and appointed, who support data center projects do so because they think it's in the long-term financial best interest of the community. This site exists to at least identify the risks to that long-term interest that those leaders are ignoring. Know the risks and the rewards. Decide what is important to your community. Understand your community’s appetite for risk. Then decide what’s right.

Links contains a starter slide presentation plus video presentation. It also has links to other sources of information.

Topics contains a long list of individual articles about data centers in general and specific proposals in Wisconsin.

Contact will do as the page title implies. The author of this site has a hard time saying no to requests, so be polite, read the materials here first, then contact.