Center for Water Policy Director, Professor, and Lynde B. Uihlein Endowed Chair Melissa Scanlan appears in an in-depth data center piece with a short video released by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. The piece explores the reasons for–and impacts of–the uptick in the AI-data center industry in Wisconsin, while the video clip from their February 2026 town hall event discusses myths about closed-loop data centers. Professor Scanlan explains in the article that the electricity demands of closed-loop systems still have a significant water and energy footprint.
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