HB5362 — Appropriations: supplemental; certain funding designated to the University of Michigan; modify. Creates…
What it does: repeals the legislative transfer that moved $100 million into the Strategic Site Readiness Program for this project, and orders the money returned to the Strategic Outreach and […]
HB6264 — Businesses: other; clean and renewable energy requirements for data centers; provide for.…
What it does: requires every data center in Michigan to procure clean or renewable energy equal to 100% of its annual energy use — by January 1, 2040. Enforced by […]
HB6252 — Businesses: other; thermal impact assessment requirements for certain data centers; provide for.
Companion to HB 6251, creating the Data Center Thermal Impact and Community Protection Act. The same 25 MW / 50 MW thresholds apply, and the same gate: a thermal impact […]
HB6251 — Businesses: other; energy infrastructure and thermal management evaluation requirements for certain data…
Creates the Data Center Energy Infrastructure and Thermal Management Evaluation Act. A “large-scale data center” — 25 megawatts or more of critical IT load, or 50 megawatts total electrical demand, […]
SB1051 — Businesses: other; Michigan zoning enabling act; make subject to the data center…
Companion to SB 1050. Local-approval hooks only, and permissive — it does not reach this project as drafted. See our analysis of SB 1050 for the strengthening amendments we support.
SB1050 — Businesses: other; community benefit agreements; require certain data centers to be subject…
The Senate’s data center siting bill. Its hooks are local approval only, and permissive — so it neither binds this project nor adds much where local authority already exists. We […]
HB6121 — Higher education: state universities; authority to purchase land; modify. Amends sec. 5…
Companion to HB 6120 in the land-acquisition package. Applies to land acquired on or after January 1, 2027, so it is prospective only and does not reach this project. We […]
HB6120 — Higher education: other; regulation of development of college- or university-owned land through…
Part of the land-acquisition package (with HB 6121 and a proposed constitutional amendment). It applies only to land acquired on or after January 1, 2027 — the parcel here was […]
HB6140 — Public employees and officers: other; nondisclosure agreements related to the construction of…
Prohibits nondisclosure agreements — but only where a political subdivision contracts with a data center owner to construct a facility in exchange for a tax incentive. This project satisfies neither […]
HB6139 — Construction: permits; acoustic engineering report for data center; require to receive building…
Requires an acoustic engineering report — an ISO 9613-2 operational noise model, a construction noise model, baseline ambient measurement at property boundaries and surrounding residences, day/night comparison, and comparison against […]