Director Scanlan Featured in High Plains Public Radio Piece about Kansas AI-Data Center Proposal
Professor Melissa Scanlan of the Center for Water Policy discussed a proposed rural Kansas data center on High Plains Public Radio. She highlighted concerns about the lack of resource demand disclosure and inadequate regional/state-level planning for AI data center developments, which can disempower local communities.
Professor Melissa Scanlan, Director of the Center for Water Policy and Lynde B. Uihlein Endowed Chair at UW-Milwaukee, was a featured guest on NPR's High Plains Public Radio. Her discussion centered on a proposed artificial intelligence data center slated for rural Kansas.
Scanlan addressed critical issues surrounding the development of AI data centers, specifically pointing to the absence of transparent resource demand disclosure. She also emphasized that current shortcomings in regional and state-level planning for these facilities can significantly disempower local communities by leaving them uninformed and unprepared for the associated impacts.