State regulators won’t reconsider power contracts for a planned hyperscale data center campus in Saline Township, stating groups opposed to the facility’s construction lacked standing to challenge the previously approved agreement between DTE Energy and the data center’s developer.
The Michigan Public Service Commission voted 3-0 on March 27 to deny requests from Attorney General Dana Nessel’s office and other groups to reconsider DTE’s agreement to provide an initial 1.4 gigawatts of energy for the data center campus. Developers Oracle and Related Digital are behind the project, which aims to power OpenAI’s “Stargate” initiative for generative artificial intelligence development.
The MPSC approved agreements between DTE and the developers in December over objections from Nessel’s office, environmental advocacy groups and local residents. In January, Nessel’s office filed a petition for rehearing, which commissioners denied during their March 27 meeting, which was livestreamed…