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As Data Centers Advance, Questions Over Costs and Oversight Grow

The Sun Times News reports on the Saline Township data center’s proposed sanitary-wastewater permit, an October 21 policy summit, Dingell’s environmental inquiries about the U-M–Los Alamos proposal and DTE’s planned gas-generation expansion. The article distinguishes the historic Textile Road dumpsite from the proposed computing-center property and attributes residents’ concerns, agency responses and developer or utility assurances. It notes that DTE’s proposed $6.4 billion generation investment has not been approved for recovery from residential customers; cost allocation remains a regulatory question.[1]

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