Around 150 people showed up for a town hall meeting on a proposed 100-megawatt Gibraltar data center Wednesday night, with many voicing concern about potential impacts to air quality, electricity bills, and the nearby Humbug Marsh. The Gibraltar City Council passed a one-year data center moratorium on Monday to give the city time to prepare […]
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Highland Park resident and filmmaker Jamela Lugo-Thomas inspired by city’s water crisis
The College of Creative Studies grad combines lived experience with film to shine a light on issues of clean water access as part of Planet Detroit’s Neighborhood Reporting Lab.
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VOICES: Clean Air Act protections are a matter of life and death
Society’s most vulnerable will face the consequences for Clean Air Act rollbacks, writes Detroit pastor who lost her granddaughter to asthma.
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Gibraltar passes data center moratorium: Facility proposed at former McLouth Steel site
A proposed 100-megawatt data center at the former McLouth Steel site in Gibraltar hit a potential roadblock on Monday when the city council passed a one-year data center moratorium. Project developer Raeden is moving forward with a Wednesday night community meeting, according to Gibraltar City Administrator Rachel Witherspoon. Gibraltar City Councilmember Kathy LaPointe said at […]
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VOICES: Protecting what we love in the age of AI
A faith-based perspective on why Great Lakes communities are pushing back against data center development.
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Great Lakes water levels decline from record highs: What the forecast says
Over the next six months, the Army Corps predicts water levels will stay below long-term averages on all Great Lakes, except possibly Lake Ontario.
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Data center answers will come from Lansing or Washington: Allen Park official
The Allen Park Planning Commission again postponed a decision Thursday on the application for a 26-megawatt data center, planned for a site on Enterprise Drive south of I-94. City Councilperson Dan Lloyd, who introduced the motion to delay the decision, said he’s concerned about updated plans for the data center to connect to municipal water […]
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What’s behind Detroit’s recent poor morning air quality?
Metro Detroiters woke up to poor air quality Wednesday morning, with commercial monitors showing air in the Air Quality Index’s unhealthy range in some locations. A temperature inversion is responsible for Wednesday morning’s stagnant air and pollution, although low winds contributed to the problem, said Alec Kownacki, a meteorologist with the Michigan Department of Environment, […]
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How canceled clean energy projects are costing Michigan — and what happens next
On a gray December morning at the Detroit/Wayne County Port Authority, the view across the river told one story about Michigan’s economic future: massive cargo terminals, a waterfront humming with diesel engines, and, on the horizon, the Windsor skyline. Inside, a different story was unfolding. More than 100 community members, business leaders, labor representatives, and […]
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Ann Arbor voters could form city-owned utility in November: ‘Nobody has a good story about DTE’
Campaigners for an Ann Arbor municipal utility are collecting signatures to put a question on the November ballot, offering residents a path to replace DTE Energy with public power.