In a new lawsuit, environmental groups are alleging the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources backtracked on the agency’s plans to conduct a full environmental review for a $15 billion data center campus in Port Washington.

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Another member of the Milwaukee Police Department has been charged with allegedly misusing the department's license plate camera reader system.

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Microsoft is getting sued over noise complaints at its new data center facility in Mount Pleasant.

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The army of small, white food delivery robots crisscrossing the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus for the past seven years have vanished. They're destined for city streets around the world as the company behind them transitions from mobile campus snack packs to grocery delivery drones.

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Tech giant Oracle is suing the Public Service Commission of Wisconsin over financial requirements that regulators approved to protect ratepayers as developers build a $15 billion data center campus to expand its AI initiatives.

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Microsoft has completed construction of a massive data center in Mount Pleasant. The facility is now fully operational and employing hundreds of people, the company says.

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The number of sextortion cases in Wisconsin nearly tripled from 2024 to 2025. Families whose children died by suicide after being sextorted are not sitting on the sidelines: They’re speaking to schools, advocating for legislation to protect victims and some are suing social media companies.

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The city of Superior has passed a moratorium on data centers as a nearby Duluth suburb weighs a massive data center complex proposed by Google.

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The most common ways medical professionals reported using AI are for taking notes and summarizing medical research, but some use it to assist with diagnosing from test results or drafting messages to patients.

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Several Wisconsin companies signed deals to provide critical components for new data centers. An analyst told WPR these deals mean Wisconsin businesses are seeing new opportunities with the boom in AI data center development.

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Community members have privacy concerns, while others have brought forward worries about the data being used by federal agencies — like Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

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The lab tests products for how well they break down and how beneficial the material is for plants.

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A Microsoft official said Tuesday the company doesn’t expect its data centers in the Great Lakes region will reach a threshold that would trigger greater review under the Great Lakes Compact.

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UW-Milwaukee's Center for Water Policy reviewed data centers around the country to develop recommendations for policymakers. They say more transparency is needed around how much water, electricity and other resources these facilities are using.

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A new state law requiring all school districts to have a policy restricting phone use in classrooms goes into effect July 1.

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As of May 1, some smaller Ascension Wisconsin ICUs in Mequon, Brookfield and Franklin are staffing critical care specialists by video call only — raising concerns from staff about patient outcomes.

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For thousands of years, a cluster of wooden canoes has lain dormant under Madison’s Lake Mendota. Now, thanks to the work of Wisconsin scientists, those ancient vessels are starting to reveal their secrets.

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A Wisconsin-based medical research lab is one of just three organizations nationwide the federal government has tapped to move forward on research into psychedelic medications.

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Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau said he expects the college to include both supportive and critical voices in its work developing AI technology and policy.

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Marquette Law School's latest polls find distrust of data center developments and the artificial intelligence they fuel crosses political, age and economic lines.

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