Data centers aren’t knocking yet — but Bayfield and Ashland counties are already asking what happens if they do

No developer has filed a single application. Not in Bayfield County, not in Ashland County. And yet last week, both county boards spent real time — public comment, presentations, pointed questions — on a technology that, as far as anyone in the room could confirm, isn’t actually coming. That’s not as strange as it sounds. […]