By Hannah Hilyard
Publication Date: 2025-11-18 04:36:00
It was a packed house with standing room only at Kenosha’s common council meeting Monday night as many residents expressed their concerns with a proposed Microsoft data center development on the northwest side of Highway 142 and Interstate 94. Person after person spoke out against the data center during public comment. One resident called on the city council to “put an immediate halt to this project.” “Any person that supports this data center and continues to support any construction of it is a traitor to Kenoshans,” another resident said at the podium.Those in opposition came with a list of concerns. “Picking one is hard. Obviously, the environmental impacts, the water usage. Our Great Lakes are very precious resource for our entire country,” Kenosha resident Cassie Oscar told 12 News. Microsoft purchased the land not too far from the Mars Cheese Castle back in January, and it has already been rezoned for a data center. “Nothing is a zero, but there’s virtually little…
