A ‘sleeping giant’ in Michigan politics: Data centers
News ClipE&E News by POLITICO·Saline, MI·12/4/2025
Residents in Saline, Michigan are protesting a planned 250-acre data center campus from OpenAI and Oracle. The project has the support of the Michigan governor and Trump administration, but locals are concerned about water usage, electricity demands, light and noise pollution, and the overall impact on their small community.
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SALINE, Michigan — Residents wielding signs and megaphones quickly filled a main thoroughfare here Monday evening to protest what could be Michigan’s biggest hyperscale data center — more evidence of the nascent backlash that’s magnifying policy divides in this deeply purple state. More than