{"id":230540,"date":"2026-06-12T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/12\/this-is-a-time-to-negotiate-recent-ai-data-center-deals-signal-boom-for-some-wisconsin-businesses\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T06:40:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T10:40:12","slug":"this-is-a-time-to-negotiate-recent-ai-data-center-deals-signal-boom-for-some-wisconsin-businesses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/12\/this-is-a-time-to-negotiate-recent-ai-data-center-deals-signal-boom-for-some-wisconsin-businesses\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018This is a time to negotiate\u2019: Recent AI data center deals signal boom for some Wisconsin businesses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpr.org\/news\/recent-ai-data-center-deals-signal-boom-for-wisconsin-businesses\">\u2018This is a time to negotiate\u2019: Recent AI data center deals signal boom for some Wisconsin businesses<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpr.org\/news\/recent-ai-data-center-deals-signal-boom-for-wisconsin-businesses\">https:\/\/www.wpr.org\/news\/recent-ai-data-center-deals-signal-boom-for-wisconsin-businesses<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-12 06:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.wpr.org\">www.wpr.org<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Over $46 billion worth of data centers are set to be developed in Wisconsin.<\/li>\n<li>Wisconsin businesses are benefiting from this data center rush.<\/li>\n<li>Generac secured a $650 million contract for backup generators for a Hyperscale data center, likely for a major tech company.<\/li>\n<li>Modine Manufacturing landed a $4 billion contract for cooling systems for a data center through 2029.<\/li>\n<li>Stock prices for both Generac and Modine have risen significantly, partly due to the data center boom.<\/li>\n<li>Wisconsin&#8217;s strategic location in the center of the U.S. gives it an advantage in data center supply chain logistics.<\/li>\n<li>The long-term economic benefits from the data center industry for Wisconsin are promising, though the sustainability of the jobs remains uncertain.<\/li>\n<li>The state needs to negotiate better terms with hyperscalers for sustained economic growth tied to data center operations.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018This is a time to negotiate\u2019: Recent AI data center deals signal boom for some&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":230541,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.wpr.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Data-Center-Render-2.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-230540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230540"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230540"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":230542,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230540\/revisions\/230542"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}