Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Shutterstock Earlier this year, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella proudly touted his company’s $7.3 billion Fairwater data center in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin, as the “world’s most powerful AI data center,” connecting “hundreds of thousands” of power-hungry chips “into a single seamless cluster.” However, local residents aren’t even remotely as enthusiastic about the facility cropping up in their neighborho