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Melissa Hughes: “These data centers want to be here in Wisconsin because it's…”

Featuring: Melissa Hughes, Secretary and CEO of the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation

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Published | Video Starts at 29:16

Here's the first thing. If anybody takes anything away from this conversation about data centers, here's what I would say. We have leverage in these conversations. These data centers want to be here in Wisconsin because it's cold, which costs less to cool data servers. down the data servers and, and do that. So, you know, they are really excited about being here. Land is not as expensive as it might be in Texas or in Arizona. (29:16–29:20)

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Asserts that Wisconsin's cold climate is a factor attracting data centers due to lower cooling costs.

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