Renewable energy projects developed to supply power to data centers in Wisconsin would have to be constructed on the data center site under a fast-moving bill being advanced by Republican lawmakers.
The Wisconsin Assembly voted Tuesday mostly along party lines to pass Assembly Bill 840, which was introduced less than two weeks ago. The bill, which includes various provisions to regulate data centers, now moves to the Senate.
The bill, however, faces pushback from Democrats, environmental groups and labor. Gov. Tony Evers (D) is unlikely to support it, a spokesperson said.
“The one thing environmentalists, labor, utilities, and data center companies can all agree on right now is how bad Republican lawmakers’ data center bill is,” Evers spokesperson Britt Cudaback said in a statement.
