A law passed in the recent two-year state budget by the Republican-led Legislature and signed by Evers granted a sales tax exemption to data centers. Meanwhile these data centers are a massive drain on the resources of the communities and states where they are located. The servers and routers in data centers generate a lot of heat. But a major force pushing for data centers are publicly regulated utilities who are looking to increase their revenues and profits. And Wisconsin, as a result of these two huge data centers, is about to become a national leader in this trend.