WisBiz Green BlogPros and Cons Of Data CentersBy Gregg HoffmannWater guzzling, jobs costing, high tech monsters or the future of communications and business. Those extremes can all be found in news coverage and discussions of data centers. Microsoft has prompted a lot of it by buying up land and planning data centers. Meta is planning to spend more than $1 billion to build a data center in Beaver Dam. The panel discussion dealt more with applications and changes on the workforce and other economic factors than environmental and specifically data centers.