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# Election Results: Wrightstown Rejects Datacenter
- URL: https://foxwatershed.com/election-results-wrightstown-rejects-datacenter/
- Published: 2026-08-13T07:34:44.000Z
- Updated: 2026-08-13T07:36:15.000Z
- Description: August 11, 2026, residents passed an advisory referendum saying they do not want public resources used to build a data center in Wrightstown
- Author: Ethan Rouse
- Tags: Brown County, Local Politics, The Midterm Monitor, Municipal Boards

On Tuesday, voters in the Village of Wrightstown told a datacenter company chasing a gigawatt of power no.¹ The advisory referendum asked whether the village should use its infrastructure, utilities, or public facilities to help build a large-scale data center. Of the 1,184 people who showed up, 1,033 said no.² That's 87%, the kind of margin most candidates only dream about.

The vote doesn't bind anything. But it puts a hard number on the village's opinion of the project, something they had been dodging for months. Turns out, Wrightstown wants nothing to do with Cloverleaf Infrastructure's roughly one-gigawatt data center.³ That puts the project in the ballpark as the data center now under construction in Port Washington, the one Cloverleaf helped get off the ground and has used as a sales pitch to other Wisconsin towns.⁴

Open records showed Cloverleaf and Village Administrator Travis Coenen had been talking since January, months before residents heard so much as a rumor.⁴ Once they did hear, the complaints sounded familiar: heavy water use, constant noise, and farmland that doesn't come back once it's paved over.⁵ The same list keeps showing up in data center fights across the state. A Marquette Law School poll from earlier this year found 70 percent of Wisconsin voters think data centers cost more than they deliver.⁶

Enough signatures landed on the village clerk's desk that trustees passed a one-year moratorium on data center projects in July, unanimously.⁷ They did it the same night board members discussed a legal challenge from NetChoice behind closed doors. NetChoice is a Washington DC trade group representing Amazon, Meta, and TikTok, and it had tried to keep the referendum off the ballot altogether, arguing it broke state law.⁸

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1. [https://spectrumnews1.com/wi/milwaukee/news/2026/08/12/voters-wrightstown-referendum-large-data-center-developments](https://spectrumnews1.com/wi/milwaukee/news/2026/08/12/voters-wrightstown-referendum-large-data-center-developments?ref=foxwatershed.com)
2. [https://www.nbc26.com/homepage-showcase/village-of-wrightstown-voters-say-no-to-data-center-development](https://www.nbc26.com/homepage-showcase/village-of-wrightstown-voters-say-no-to-data-center-development?ref=foxwatershed.com)
3. [https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/wrightstown-overwhelmingly-opposes-ai-data-051554449.html](https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/wrightstown-overwhelmingly-opposes-ai-data-051554449.html?ref=foxwatershed.com)
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7. [https://www.nbc26.com/news/local-news/wrightstown-adopts-a-one-year-moratorium-on-data-center-projects](https://www.nbc26.com/news/local-news/wrightstown-adopts-a-one-year-moratorium-on-data-center-projects?ref=foxwatershed.com)
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