Community conversation in Royal Oak, putting serious guardrails on data centers, and more
Earlier this month, the President of the United States wrote the following on his Truth Social site: “The only reason that communities throughout the U.S.A. should not want Data Centers is if they want to end up being backwards and poor.” I disagree, and so do many of my fellow House Democrats who’ve introduced legislation that would put rigorous standards in place for any company looking to build a hyperscale data center in Michigan.
Residents across the state have legitimate concerns around data centers’ impacts on our environment, job market, electricity bills, property values, and overall quality of life. In response, House Democrats have introduced legislation that would do each of the following, and more:
- Limiting large data centers’ water usage (House Bill 6138)
- Requiring large data centers to provide their own power (HB 6135)
- Requiring large data center projects to invest in local communities (HBs 6136 and 6137)
- Repealing the tax exemptions given to large data center developers during the 2023-2024 legislature (HBs 5396–5398)
I am a proud supporter and co-sponsor of all of these bills. If any company wants to build a data center in Michigan, they need to pay their own way, pull their own weight, and invest in the communities they want to build in. Michigan families, not trillion-dollar companies, must come first.
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