CNOW for May 19, 2025

This week's notice:

  • Oppose SB 241: Incentivizing data centers without environmental considerations

Oppose SB 241: Incentivizing data centers without environmental considerations

Wisconsin Conservation Voters urges you to oppose SB 241, which is before the Senate Committee on Government Operations, Labor and Economic Development on Wednesday.

Data centers require a lot of energy and water resources to operate. Wisconsin's economic development tools should not be used to incentivize industries that do not have plans to adequately address their outsized environmental impacts. SB 241 creates a broad tax incremental financing-related benefit for data centers, without any requirements related to how they are developed or powered.

Conservation Notices of the Week (CNOW) announces the pro-conservation positions on issues before the Senate, Assembly and/or Governor in the week ahead to state legislators. Others wishing to follow activities in the state legislature also receive CNOW, including legislative staff, conservation voters, and media. All of these issues are tracked on the Vote Tracker. Issues in the CNOW may appear in the Conservation Scorecard, to be released in the summer of 2026.

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