# Um pequeno município da Wisconsin paralisa um projeto de data center de US$ 1,6 bilhão

- Seção: Estados Unidos
- Fonte: The Guardian (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/nov/01/wisconsin-city-menomie-meta-datacenter)
- Publicado em: 2026-11-01T17:00:21.000Z
- URL: https://www.itatiba1.com.br/noticia/1465590-um-pequeno-municipio-da-wisconsin-paralisa-um-projeto-de-data-center-de-us-1-6
- Tradução automática do original em "en": "How a small Wisconsin city scuttled a secretive $1.6bn datacenter project"

> Os moradores de Menomonie organizaram uma protesto eficaz contra um grande campus proposto pela Meta, com crescente resistência comunitária ao avanço da IA.

Residents of Menomonie mounted a successful protest against a huge campus proposed by Meta – and community resistance to the AI boom is growing

In the spring of 2025, Sydney Brennan was riding high. The 22-year-old was finishing college and was a newly elected councilwoman in Menomonie, a city of about 17,000 in the lush plains of north-western Wisconsin.

Weeks into the new job, she was invited to a meeting with consultants pitching a $1.6bn AI hyperscale datacenter campus that an undisclosed big tech company wanted to build just outside of town. The project’s numbers were eye-opening: a 320-acre site that would use an estimated 75,000 gallons of water per day, making it the most significant development in Menomonie’s nearly 150-year history.

Reportagem completa: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/nov/01/wisconsin-city-menomie-meta-datacenter

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