HB6136 — Businesses: other; Michigan zoning enabling act; make subject to the data center…
Amends the Michigan Zoning Enabling Act to address data center siting. Zoning does not bind a constitutionally autonomous public university, so this bill does not reach this project — but […]
HB6141 — Public utilities: electric utilities; project labor agreements; require for certain data center…
Labor standards for data center construction and operation, enforced through PSC contract approval — a hook that reaches this project, since constitutional autonomy does not extend to compelling Commission approvals. […]
HB6135 — Public utilities: rates; large load commercial rates for data centers; establish. Amends…
Creates a separate utility rate class for data centers, enforced through PSC ratemaking. Because the hook is the Public Service Commission’s rate authority rather than any local permit, it applies […]
HB6142 — Businesses: other; requirements for data center decommissioning, dismantling, and remediation; provide for.…
Requires decommissioning plans and restoration of the site to pre-construction condition, enforced through PSC tariff approval. Because the hook is the Public Service Commission rather than a local permit, it […]
HB6137 — Businesses: other; community benefit agreements; require certain data centers to be subject…
The Community Benefits Agreement vehicle. Section 7’s local site-plan hook is inert against a project that needs no local approval — but Section 9’s PSC interconnection gate reaches it, because […]
SB1046 — Water supply: conservation; permit for water used for consumptive use purposes; provide…
Beginning July 1, 2027, a data center using — or expected to use — 550,000 gallons per day or more (yearly average, consumptive use) must stop withdrawing from waters of […]
HB6138 — Businesses: other; data center water usage requirements; provide for. Creates new act.…
The strongest bill in the package. Section 5 prohibits constructing or operating a data center unless it uses a closed-loop cooling system or only municipal water — and a facility […]
SB1047 — Public utilities: rates; separate rate class for large-load customers; require. Amends 1939…
The House bills define a “data center” by what it does — houses equipment to centralize the storage and processing of data — with no size threshold at all. That […]