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CALEDONIA, Wis (CBS 58) -- Microsoft representatives were in Caledonia on Wednesday night, Sept. 24, at a town hall meeting to discuss plans of a potential data center coming to town.

The data center would be along Highway 32 near Seven Mile Rd. and stretch across 244 acres of land.

Prescott Balch lives about a mile from where the proposed data center would be built.

“I’d be afraid to move in,” Balch said. “We already have people, one of whom was at the meeting last night in front of the board saying she had a 5-acre parcel that she was ready to sell.”

Balch says he is worried about the potential light pollution, sound, and traffic, but also the long-term impacts, especially if Microsoft does not need the center in the future.

“Let’s make a decision about where we’re going to

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