1+ hour, 19+ min ago   (223+ words) Ben and Maggie Reinhard live in Muskegon with their two young daughters. But back in 2020, they were looking for love in the same place a lot of folks do: a dating app. And despite the chaos and confusion of the…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (536+ words) Senate Democrats say Michiganders would benefit from data centers, rather than carry their burden, under new proposed regulations. “Michiganders are rightfully worried about the impact on electricity and water cost as well as availability,” State Senator Rosemary Bayer (D-West Bloomfield)…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (535+ words) Michigan’s attorney general is suggesting tweaks to the proposed utility contracts for a planned Google data center in southeast Michigan. The contracts would allow DTE Energy to dedicate up to 1.6 gigawatts of renewable energy, and 480 megawatts of electricity storage, to…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (427+ words) The expansion of infrastructure to support artificial intelligence has raised alarms in communities across Michigan. Residents are wary that their surroundings are either slated for data center construction or could be soon — so much so that the area covered by…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago   (610+ words) This week, two Michigan municipalities took two different paths in their approaches to data center regulation — a divergence that underscores the tough choices communities need to make in a state that experts say has caught the eye of data center…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago   (98+ words) The bill package would stop kids from using social media without parental consent, ban targeted advertising directed at kids, and create new restrictions on AI chatbots available to children....

3+ mon, 1+ week ago   (303+ words) The companies behind a massive data center under construction outside Ann Arbor said Friday that they've secured the financing they need to continue the project. Related Digital and Blackstone are building the data center in Saline Township for the technology…...

3+ mon, 4+ week ago   (289+ words) Governor Gretchen Whitmer called for stronger federal action to protect children from addictive practices by social media companies to keep kids online. The Democratic governor took part in a summit Tuesday of groups seeking to hold internet companies accountable for…...

6+ mon, 1+ day ago   (513+ words) A data center proposal, which the developer has dubbed Project Cannoli, is under consideration in Wayne County's Van Buren Township in Michigan. A company called Panattoni is developing the project, which local officials have said will use roughly 1 gigawatt of…...

6+ mon, 3+ week ago   (238+ words) If you noticed a lot of extra junk clogging up your feeds and the internet in general this year, you're not the only one. This onslaught of low-effort, mass-produced AI-generated content is exactly what inspired the American Dialect Society to…...