Dems scramble to regulate data centers amid development frenzy triggered by tax breaks they passed last year - The Midwesterner

Dems scramble to regulate data centers amid development frenzy triggered by tax breaks they passed last year - The Midwesterner

Michigan lawmakers are aiming at data centers at the same time communities across the state are pushing back against building proposals from corporations like Microsoft and Oracle. Several bills that would regulate the environmental impacts of data centers and potentially slow the flood of project proposals in the state have been introduced in recent weeks, garnering bipartisan support. Developers of data centers, which are used to house informa…