Even for a born pitchman like Eric Adams, a data center was always going to be a tough sell.
So when video surfaced of the former New York City mayor being mercilessly heckled by angry residents in a central Wisconsin library as he tried to convince them of the benefits of building a 150-megawatt data center at the site of an old paper mill, the record-scratch, freeze-frame questions asked themselves.
How did Adams spend his time in Wisconsin? What was his plan to make this work? And who, exactly, thought this was a good idea?
We traveled to Wisconsin Rapids to find out.