New Data Center Proposals Would ‘Kill’ Michigan’s Strong New Climate Laws - Inside Climate News

As big data center targets Michigan town, residents ask: Who benefits?

YPSILANTI, Mich.—Ever since a team of activists began stickering the Ypsilanti-Ann Arbor area of Michigan with provocative slogans, the “Ypsi Data Center” has been the talk of the town. The data center in question is a joint project between University of Michigan and Los Alamos National Laboratory, a federal government weapons development lab best known for its work on the atomic bomb. The project is set to be built in Ypsilanti Township, near S…

New Data Center Proposals Would ‘Kill’ Michigan’s Strong New Climate Laws - Inside Climate News

New Michigan data center plans are on the verge of triggering an “offramp” in the state’s nation-leading climate laws that would effectively halt the shift to renewables less than two years after the plans were approved.By Tom PerkinsThe “offramp” provision in Michigan’s 2023 climate and clean energy laws allows utilities to keep running or building fossil fuel plants if renewable sources cannot handle the energy grid’s load. Now, newly proposed…

New Data Center Proposals Would ‘Kill’ Michigan’s Strong New Climate Laws

New Michigan data center plans are on the verge of triggering an "offramp" in the state's nation-leading climate laws that would effectively halt the shift to renewables less than two years after the plans were approved. By Tom Perkins The "offramp" provision in Michigan's 2023 climate and clean energy laws allows utilities to keep running or building fossil fuel plants if renewable sources cannot handle the energy grid's load. Now, newly propos…