1+ day, 3+ hour ago   (592+ words) Paul Kiefer joined Wisconsin Watch in September 2025 as a Roy W. Howard fellow, focusing largely on immigration and data reporting. He grew up in Washington state, first setting foot in a newsroom as a teenage producer-in-training at a Seattle public radio…...

1+ week, 7+ hour ago   (270+ words) Milwaukee has become part of a mass surveillance apparatus. Surveillance technology is dangerous, and few know that these are counterinsurgency tactics being practiced on residents by our own police department. These types of surveillance technologies made their way back for…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (265+ words) For six months now, Wisconsin Watch has made a concerted effort to report on data centers. We’re publishing major stories at WisconsinWatch.org and, each Monday, we provide data center news nuggets in our Forward newsletter (subscribe here). Here’s a…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (185+ words) Wisconsin Watch partners with Gigafact to produce Fact Briefs — bite-sized fact checks of trending claims. Read our methodology to learn how we check claims. Wisconsin state government is not spending $2 billion on data centers. The campaign website of Democratic gubernatorial…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (220+ words) Wisconsin Watch partners with Gigafact to produce Fact Briefs — bite-sized fact checks of trending claims. Read our methodology to learn how we check claims. A 2023-25 budget provision granting a sales tax exemption to data centers was passed by the Republican-controlled…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (475+ words) Wisconsin’s largest transmission utility is seeking federal intervention months after the Midwest’s regional grid operator awarded a major project to a startup competitor. The American Transmission Company (ATC), which owns and operates transmission lines across eastern and central Wisconsin, asked…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (798+ words) Whether artificial intelligence data centers are essential to modern life, an existential threat or something in between, one impact is clear: As they pave over homes and farmland, they are minting millionaires — and even generation-changing wealth. In Wisconsin, the clearest…...

3+ week, 18+ hour ago   (469+ words) Wisconsin’s Public Service Commission (PSC) has no plans to reconsider We Energies’ request to loosen credit rating rules for data center developers. The commission voted in April to require data center developers with below-threshold credit ratings to provide financial guarantees…...

2+ mon, 3+ day ago   (271+ words) In the coming weeks, thousands of students will walk across stages at graduation ceremonies across Wisconsin. It is our job to ensure they are prepared for whatever step comes next. But as they step into a rapidly changing world, one…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago   (940+ words) Wisconsin regulators on Thursday approved a one-off contract between Alliant Energy and the Meta subsidiary building a data center campus in Beaver Dam, but with a major caveat: Alliant must return with a standardized plan to power future data centers…...