Amazon vows to invest $1 billion in areas where it builds data centers
Amazon said it will invest $1 billion over five years to support job education, energy affordability and other priorities in communities where its data centers are located.
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Amazon said it will invest $1 billion over five years to support job education, energy affordability and other priorities in communities where its data centers are located.
The back-and-forth over a Google data center in Van Buren Township continues as Wayne County commissioners override County Executive Warren Evans' veto over tax incentives.
The Sierra Club Michigan Chapter gathered with other environmental groups and grassroots activists in Lansing on Tuesday to demand Michigan lawmakers take action on pending data center legislation.
Advocates who met with lawmakers in Lansing said they're encouraged by support for regulation from both parties. One said more officials are echoing the call for a moratorium.
Will Lawrence, a progressive Democratic congressional candidate in Michigan, is trying to harness unease over the rapid pace of artificial intelligence development to defeat Republican Rep. Tom Barrett.
For the first time, University of Michigan leaders participated in a town hall discussion on Wednesday night about plans for a high-performance research computing center in Ypsilanti Township.
In a widely shared and controversial post to Truth Social on Monday morning, President Trump blasted communities across the country that are rallying against data centers.
A data center developer is suing the city of Gibraltar, Michigan, alleging that officials unlawfully imposed a one-year moratorium on the project.
CBS News Detroit learned on Thursday that current plans are to continue running the course as it is.
University of Michigan chose a 144-acre site along the Huron River to build the project in collaboration with Los Alamos National Laboratory.
According to the permit application, the facility will discharge treated water used by the data center into the Saline River.
The 250-acre data center, built in partnership with OpenAI, was originally projected to cost $4.8 billion, a figure which has since grown to $43 billion.
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is calling on data center companies that want to invest in Michigan to support a "responsible growth" plan.
The legislation follows the university's recently agreed-upon purchase of Concordia University on the east side of Ann Arbor.
The heaviest demand on America's water supply isn't data centers or AI. It's from everyday uses such as growing food, watering lawns and flushing toilets.
Most Americans expect data centers to negatively impact the environment, local resources, although some see economic benefits
Meta pledged to invest $115 million to train electricians, plumbers and other workers needed to operate data centers.
The rush to build thousands of U.S. data centers is driving demand for some workers, though economists project fewer permanent jobs.
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Residents throughout the country are concerned with the environmental impact and utility costs of data centers. Jo Ling Kent looks into how officials in different cities across the U.S. are dealing with the unease.
