WORT 89.9FM Madison · Data Centers Cause Problems Beyond Their Footprint
According to datacenter.com, there are currently 40 data centers in Wisconsin, with at least 5 more proposed, including a thousand-acre QTS facility proposed in DeForest. Residents have spoken out about the farmland and environmental land displaced by the facilities’ expansive footprints, the water consumption and their enormous electrical demand – in many cases more than communities’ total residential and commercial consumption. That demand for electricity has even farther-reaching consequences, in the form of new power line proposals. Christian Thorsberg is an environmental journalist who studied the issue in a…..