The Michigan Public Service Commission is holding its second public hearing to hear from the community about what should be included in electric utilities’ long-range plans.
Those plans look ahead 20 years to detail how regulated electric utilities will meet future power demand in Michigan reliably and most cost-effectively, while also meeting the state’s ambitious clean energy goals, which call for net zero carbon emissions by the year 2040.
Environmental groups will hold a “Rally Against Data Centers,” and press conference before the 6:00 p.m. hearing in Auburn Hills, to call attention to concerns that power-hungry data centers could threaten the state’s electric grid…