A ‘sleeping giant’ in Michigan politics: Data centers

December 5, 2025

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.

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