A small city just voted on AI and the result could ripple nationwide

A Wisconsin city just made a historic push to say no to big tech’s data center frenzy. Voters in the Milwaukee suburb of Port Washington just overwhelmingly passed a measure to limit the construction of future data centers unless the community gets a say.  Port Washington residents voted on the referendum earlier this week, which made it to the ballot through a grassroots effort that required collecting signatures across the 12,000-person town. The backlash against big tech’s AI plans...