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Anna Haensch

Anna Haensch

Oct 2, 2026

10:33
Does this reflect the public sentiment that you're hearing in those venues? Also, can you give some background on why you started going to those town halls? What's it like to be at one in person?
10:45
Yeah.
10:45
Um, so I started traveling around the state this spring with a group of folks from the University of Wisconsin Division of Extension.
10:54
So this is a piece of the university that kind of covers the whole state.
10:58
They have representatives in every county of the state, and their goal is to bring the fruits of the university across to every resident of the state.
11:08
Um, and they were hosting these AI forums for local and tribal governments, and, um, the, the planning of the forum predated my arrival in the Midwest.
11:17
[laughs] And I believe that initially the goal had been to have a forum about, like, incorporating AI workflows into local governments, but then data centers just, like, really popped off, so they plugged in a data center module into this, let's call it, like, an AI roadshow, and they invited me to join them, and it was really cool.

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30:02
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