SALINE TWP., MI — Amid angry, screaming neighbors, national publicity and personal attacks, elected officials in a rural farming community south of Ann Arbor continue to face pushback against a difficult decision they had to make.
The blowback is due to the Saline Township Board of Trustee’s decision to settle a lawsuit, which paved the way for a massive 2.2-million-square-foot hyperscale data center for Chat GPT-creator OpenAI and multinational technology firm Oracle to move forward.
But was it a lose-lose situation for township officials?…