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Can you stop AI datacenters? Comedian Charlie Berens thinks so – Stateside with Kai and Carter

Last summer, Wisconsin comedian Charlie Berens started getting messages from people in his state about plans for a major datacenter in their community. When Berens dug in, he was shocked to discover the impact the datacenter would have on local residents. So he responded with comedy. The video he posted online about the datacenter went […]

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‘Nobody’s negotiating for the people here’: comedian Charlie Berens takes on AI datacenters

Known for his ‘Manitowoc Minute’ skits and midwestern humor, the journalist turned comedian is speaking out against the AI datacenter boom in WisconsinLast summer, journalist turned comedian Charlie Berens started getting social media messages from concerned Wisconsin residents about plans for a massive datacenter campus in their state.The developer, Vantage Data Centers, claimed the $8

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Demand for AI Data Centers Sends Prospectors Hunting for Land and Power

Brian Janous, a former Microsoft executive, and his firm Cloverleaf have become modern-day land men, packaging electricity and land for data centers.

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‘The digital colonization of flyover states’: how datacenters are tearing small-town America apart

The rapid rollout of datacenters across the US is creating a divide between municipal governments and residentsWilmington, Ohio, resident Quintin Koger Kidd was so concerned last June with his local public officials’ alleged misdoings – open meeting violations and other discrepancies – that he filed a complaint in court to have the mayor and city

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