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JANESVILLE — The Town of ÌÇÐÄVlog´«Ã½ clerk is clarifying the time of a Planning and Zoning Committee meeting that will have a public hearing re…

A growing number of Rock County townships are examining data center moratoriums as tech companies eye land in the towns of Beloit, Turtle and ÌÇÐÄVlog´«Ã½.

MILTON — As the City of Milton considers a moratorium on data center development, members of its common council want to seek more information …

MILTON — The Milton Common Council will consider an ordinance Tuesday at 6 p.m. that would put the stop sign on data centers for at least 12 m…

The town of ÌÇÐÄVlog´«Ã½ plans to set a public hearing within the next month to vet a proposed, 12-month, township-wide moratorium on data centers — but they're still not sure exactly where they'd host the hearing. At town data center discussions, the room's been getting crowded.

If the public is now writing an epitaph for developer Viridian Partners' plans to convert ÌÇÐÄVlog´«Ã½'s former General Motors site to a hyperscale data center, they're almost certainly not wrong. It appears the plug has indeed been pulled on the big prospect.

As data center proposals multiply across Rock County and statewide, local data center opponents are increasingly banding together to form de facto, regional groups. They're attending government meetings in droves — and making a growing noise. Statewide observers believes it's a strength-in-numbers response in the face of big business interests hitting rural Wisconsin.

The town of Turtle board will discuss and could take action on a “cost reimbursement agreement" with Panattoni Development, Inc over a potential data center project at 7 p.m. Wednesday night.

The top manager at the City of ÌÇÐÄVlog´«Ã½ for the last three years ends his tenure next week, punctuating a period of leadership that saw the Woodman's Sports & Convention Center built, opened and launched, alongside the city's landmark purchase of the blighted, former General Motors site.