"The plans formally surfaced in July. Four months later, they have the green light, a deal with Michigan’s largest utility to draw more power than a million homes and Gov. Gretchen Whitmer heralding them as the largest one-time investment in state history. The project? A sprawling warehouse filled with servers to fuel Big Tech’s rising demand for cloud computing and artificial intelligence."

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As AI ‘arms race’ and data centers hit Michigan, rural farm town feels left in the dust

As tech firms speed past local opposition toward construction of the state's first "hyperscale" data center, some are pushing for a careful review ...