AB140 creates a “data center” exception to the 12% maximum property-value rule for certain Tax Incremental Districts (TIDs).
The Senate passed AB140 on June 18, 2025, by a vote of 29 to 3. We have assigned pluses to the nays because Big Tech and Big Government are colluding to erect a centralized, artificial intelligence (AI) surveillance infrastructure over the American population. The rapid construction of massive “data centers” in Wisconsin and throughout the United States is a growing danger to Americans’ personal privacy and property. It grants federal, state, and local authorities an unprecedented and unconstitutional amount of power to collect our phone calls, text messages, and internet communications. This dark, techno-oligarchic attempt to hear everything, see everything, and be everywhere at all times serves no lawful purpose but to conduct warrantless “unreasonable searches.” Further, the abuse of eminent domain, as well as taxation, for these “data centers” encroaches upon constitutionally protected property rights. Wisconsin lawmakers are duty-bound by oath to uphold the Fourth, Fifth, and 14th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution.
