"The 83-year-old renowned landscape painter, whose work has been displayed at museums across the country, has spent hundreds of hours and years of work over the last few decades maintaining and curating his land into a sweeping prairie that has come to serve as the inspiration for his work and his livelihood."
"It's a lifetime of work that Uttech now says has come under threat after receiving a letter in the mail from his utility company informing him that a massive power line would need to be built through his property, undoing years of work and stripping away the muse for his art."
"Uttech later learned that the transmission line would be used to help power a massive $15 billion data center campus that's set to be built on over 500 football fields' worth of farmland in nearby in Port Washington -- a signature part of the Trump administration's $500 billion Stargate partnership with OpenAI and Oracle, which President Donald Trump hopes will help supercharge the artificial intelligence revolution."
Tom Uttech has lived on his 52-acre property in Saukville, Wisconsin, for nearly 40 years. From outside his home art studio the landscape contains rolling hills, wildflowers and rows of evergreens he planted by hand in 1988 that have matured. The 83-year-old landscape painter curated the land into a sweeping prairie that inspires his art and livelihood. He received a utility letter saying a massive power line would be built through his property, threatening years of work and the muse for his art. The transmission line would help power a $15 billion data center campus planned in nearby Port Washington as part of a federal Stargate partnership with OpenAI and Oracle.
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