A Michigan Town Hopes to Stop a Data Center With a 2026 Ballot Initiative

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This is the second of three articles about Michigan communities organizing to stop the construction of energy-intensive computing facilities.

Early this year, Augusta Charter Township resident Travis Matts had seen a few headlines about the problems data centers caused in towns across the country. He thought the impacts on water, air and utility bills sounded awful, but it also seemed like a far-away issue…

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