Wisconsin residents file class-action lawsuit against Microsoft's 'world's most powerful AI data center' due to data center noise
Residents of Mount Pleasant and Sturtevant, Wisconsin, filed a federal class-action lawsuit against Microsoft over continuous noise from its $7.3 billion Fairwater AI data centre. The complaint describes a constant hum likened to a freight train, as well as construction noise and bright light at night, and says neighbours are kept indoors and lose sleep. Microsoft had held a public Q&A about the noise without offering a fix.
- Language it was published in
- en
- Date it happened
- 2026-07-02
- Organisation involved
- Microsoft
- Product, system or model
- Fairwater AI data centre
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