Saline Township residents packed a small boardroom Wednesday night to voice their anger over a multibillion-dollar artificial intelligence data center project that will transform their rural community.
The approximately 250-acre project by Related Digital will help power artificial intelligence for Oracle and OpenAI, which owns ChatGPT. While no decisions related to the project were on the agenda, dozens of residents used the public comment period to express their frustrations at the first meeting since the project was officially announced. However, the announcement was not the first time residents here learned of it.
Watch Brett Kast’s video report below:
Saline Township residents raise concerns, anger against incoming data center
“We built our dream home so I could raise my five small children, and nobody is here to protect me, nobody is here to protect us,” said Kathryn Haushalter, a Marine veteran whose property will border the new data center…