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East Lansing, Michigan just extended its data center moratorium with no project on the table, becoming one of the first US cities to pause hyperscale development preemptively rather than waiting for a developer to file
The Direct Message Tension: East Lansing is pausing data center development it isn’t being asked to approve, trading potential tax-base diversification for the time to write enforceable rules before a developer forces the question. Noise: The easy frame is anti-development activism or pro-industry NIMBYism. Neither fits: no project is filed, the vote was unanimous, and the council openly named the revenue tradeoff. Direct Message: The moratorium…
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