Legislation
These are the bills we are tracking in Lansing that respond to the proposed data center development. Each one links to our analysis — what the bill does, whether it actually reaches this project, and the amendments we support — along with its current status, updated daily.
Appropriations: supplemental; certain funding designated to the University of Michigan; modify. Creates…
Latest: 2025-12-16 — Bill Electronically Reproduced 12/11/2025
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…
Businesses: other; thermal impact assessment requirements for certain data centers; provide for.
Latest: 2026-08-27 — Bill Electronically Reproduced 08/26/2026
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…
Businesses: other; energy infrastructure and thermal management evaluation requirements for certain data…
Latest: 2026-08-27 — Bill Electronically Reproduced 08/26/2026
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…
Businesses: other; clean and renewable energy requirements for data centers; provide for.…
Latest: 2026-08-27 — Bill Electronically Reproduced 08/26/2026
🔗 House Data Center Package
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.…
Businesses: other; data center water usage requirements; provide for. Creates new act.…
Latest: 2026-06-30 — Bill Electronically Reproduced 06/25/2026
🔗 House Data Center Package
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…
Businesses: other; requirements for data center decommissioning, dismantling, and remediation; provide for.…
Latest: 2026-06-30 — Bill Electronically Reproduced 06/25/2026
🔗 House Data Center Package
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…
Public utilities: electric utilities; project labor agreements; require for certain data center…
Latest: 2026-06-30 — Bill Electronically Reproduced 06/25/2026
🔗 House Data Center Package
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…
Public employees and officers: other; nondisclosure agreements related to the construction of…
Latest: 2026-06-30 — Bill Electronically Reproduced 06/25/2026
🔗 House Data Center Package
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…
Construction: permits; acoustic engineering report for data center; require to receive building…
Latest: 2026-06-30 — Bill Electronically Reproduced 06/25/2026
🔗 House Data Center Package
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…
Businesses: other; community benefit agreements; require certain data centers to be subject…
Latest: 2026-06-30 — Bill Electronically Reproduced 06/25/2026
🔗 House Data Center Package
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…
Businesses: other; Michigan zoning enabling act; make subject to the data center…
Latest: 2026-06-30 — Bill Electronically Reproduced 06/25/2026
🔗 House Data Center Package
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…
Public utilities: rates; large load commercial rates for data centers; establish. Amends…
Latest: 2026-06-30 — Bill Electronically Reproduced 06/25/2026
🔗 House Data Center Package
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,…
Water supply: conservation; permit for water used for consumptive use purposes; provide…
Latest: 2026-09-10 — Senate Co-sponsor(s) Named: Veronica Klinefelt
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…
Higher education: other; regulation of development of college- or university-owned land through…
Latest: 2026-06-24 — Bill Electronically Reproduced 06/23/2026
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…
Higher education: state universities; authority to purchase land; modify. Amends sec. 5…
Latest: 2026-06-24 — Bill Electronically Reproduced 06/23/2026
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…
Businesses: other; community benefit agreements; require certain data centers to be subject…
Latest: 2026-09-10 — Introduced By Senator Veronica Klinefelt
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…
Businesses: other; Michigan zoning enabling act; make subject to the data center…
Latest: 2026-09-10 — Senate Co-sponsor(s) Named: Veronica Klinefelt
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…
Public utilities: rates; separate rate class for large-load customers; require. Amends 1939…
Latest: 2026-09-10 — Senate Co-sponsor(s) Named: Veronica Klinefelt
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…