Prescott Balch crunches the numbers on AI data centers and tells local communities how they can make their voice heard.

Prescott Balch is a retired tech executive and resident of Caledonia, WI. He helped lead his community’s rejection of a Microsoft AI data center after presenting the financial impact this development would have on his community.

Prescott tells us why Big Tech targets small towns and the risk to resident’s tax and power bills.

He goes into the specifics of recent proposals in Wisconsin towns including Port Washington (Vantage, Oracle, OpenAI) and Beaver Dam (Meta). Additionally Prescott discusses NDAs, the larger artificial intelligence boom, and the risk to people in these communities and society at large.

Thanks Prescott for stopping by for an Old Fashioned

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