The fight over Illinois’s data center boom is coming to a head

At a packed and contentious Joliet City Council meeting on Tuesday night, opponents outnumbered supporters of a proposed data center at the edge of the city, not far from a large warehouse development. People spilled out of the chamber. Some wore union shirts bearing the names of their local chapters, and representatives for IBEW 176 […] The post The fight over Illinois’s data center boom is coming to a head appeared first on Chicago Reader.