Homeowner fights $81K offer to clear land for data-center power line

For more than three decades, Jerry Zelenka and his wife have built their Wisconsin property piece by piece, turning raw land into a home surrounded by trees, barns and working outbuildings. Now, a proposed transmission line tied to a planned data center in nearby Port Washington could dramatically alter the property, leaving the 75-year-old homeowner facing the prospect of losing much of what he spent years creating. The Fredonia homeowner says American Transmission Co. has proposed a new route across his property, including a cleared corridor, the removal of six structures and a 130-foot transmission tower near his driveway. He intends to challenge the plan rather than voluntarily accept the terms, states an online report by Washington County Insider.A new Route, a bigger disputeThe current proposal follows an earlier application that the Public Service Commission of Wisconsin rejected as incomplete, according to Zelenka.