1. United States
2. Mich.
3. Letter

Someone else said this better than I can: "Yes, Michigan should lead on data centers. It should lead on regulating them hard. It should lead on requiring them to prepay for all power distribution and use needs they will require, and charging them at a higher use rate than residential. It should lead on requiring third party verification of water usage with third party cutoff of water for violations. It should lead on requiring local and hyper local buy in. It should lead on having any violations be fines at 2-4x income (not profit, income) rather than some low fixed fee, so that fees for violations can’t be factored into the cost of doing business. It should lead on holding executives personally liable, with jail time minimums and no option of just fines, for any criminal level wrongdoing by the data centers. Come on, Gretch, actually lead on this."