Former New York City mayor faced heckling from residents over water use, jobs, and project details at Saturday event in Wisconsin Rapids.
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Former New York City mayor Eric Adams traveled to Wisconsin Rapids on Saturday to promote a proposed 150-megawatt data center project, where he faced boos and heckling from approximately 240 residents.
Adams appeared alongside Anton Voronkin, chief development officer of PNK Group, an industrial real estate developer considering a roughly 1.2-million-square-foot campus at the city's former paper mill site. According to PNK Group, Adams serves as a paid consulting adviser on "community engagement and stakeholder communication" for the project.
Residents pressed Adams and Voronkin with questions about the data center's water consumption, electricity demands, job creation, and ownership structure. The hostile reception tested both Adams's role as a community engagement consultant and PNK Group's broader effort to build public support for the initiative.
The proposed project currently lacks city approval, a finalized land deal, and a named operator. The 150-megawatt campus would represent a significant industrial development for Wisconsin Rapids, built on the grounds of a former paper mill facility.
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