AI data center project touts jobs, tax revenue and innovation while critics continue to question scale, energy use and rural impacts
Guests passed through two security checkpoints, presenting QR codes before entering a large tent erected beside the sprawling construction site. Behind the speakers, excavators continued work on the project that developers say will reshape both Saline Township and Michigan’s role in the emerging AI economy.
The ceremony had the feel of a high-security open house. Construction has been underway for months, but Monday marked the first time many invited guests were able to see the scale of the site firsthand and hear directly from the executives behind the project, who call it the largest private investment in Michigan history…