Mount Pleasant leaders approve Microsoft lots allowing for up to 15 more data centers
CBS 58 MOUNT PLEASANT, Wis. (CBS 58) -- Mount Pleasant leaders are moving forward with plans to build more than a dozen data centers.
They just heard from residents about the plans from Microsoft.
"The growth of it, I think, is just going to be tremendous in our area," one resident said. "I think this is going to be history in the making for Southeast Wisconsin."
"I want to speak to Microsoft," another person said. "When is enough enough? How many data centers do you want to cram down our throats before you are satisfied that you have bled us dry of our natural resources and decimated our community?"
The Mount Pleasant Village Board unanimously approved two proposed lots by Microsoft.
It allows up to 15 data centers on land already owned by the company.
The land was previously reserved for a Foxconn plant.