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Recent Michigan data center news

• Jan 23, 2026

  Oracle Advances American AI Innovation and Local Economic Prosperity in New Mexico

  Oracle announced it will be the tenant of Project Jupiter, an AI data center campus in southern New Mexico, and that it will occupy the campus to deploy AI infrastructure for OpenAI.

  • Main announcement and commitments: Oracle will be the tenant of Project Jupiter and will deploy AI infrastructure for OpenAI; the company projects an economic boost of approximately $384 million per year during construction and $113 million per year once operational; it plans $360 million in direct payments to Doña Ana County, $50 million for water system fixes, over $600 million in Gross Revenue Tax payments expected to the State and County, and supplemental community investments of $6.9 million (including a $1.5 million donation to the Boys and Girls Club of Las Cruces). Oracle and partners now expect ~4,000 construction jobs and up to 1,500 onsite or county jobs (versus earlier forecasts of 2,500 construction and 750 permanent jobs). Oracle will fund and build a dedicated microgrid, onsite transmission lines, battery storage, and a dedicated substation; installed pollution controls will exceed US EPA’s new standards by 50% or more.
  • Project details and background: The campus will use a closed-loop, non-evaporative cooling system that does not draw from local water supplies (water tanks filled once); daily operational water use will be comparable to a typical office building. Oracle Academy is expanding in New Mexico and partnering with local institutions (New Mexico State University, Doña Ana Community College) for workforce development. The article is an announcement/op-ed by Josh Pitcock (Jan 23, 2026) and contains forward-looking statements referencing Oracle’s SEC filings.
• Jan 23, 2026

  Affordability tops concerns at DTE’s Detroit listening session: Resident’s winter heat bill ‘devastating’

  DTE Energy hosted a listening session in Southwest Detroit to solicit input on its forthcoming Integrated Resource Plan (IRP), which it must file with the state by the end of 2026.

  • Main announcement: DTE Energy held a public listening session in Southwest Detroit to gather ratepayer input on its IRP; the utility must file the IRP by end of 2026, and the Michigan Public Service Commission has ordered utilities to consider affordability impacts and mitigation if energy burdens exceed 6%.
  • Details & context: Attendees raised affordability and frequent outages (residents cited paying roughly $850 more per year in 2025 vs 2006); the MPSC cited “significant potential load growth” from data centers, DTE says a recent data center deal may allow selling excess generation, and consultants warn each 1 GW data center could raise residential rates by 5%-10%.
• Jan 21, 2026

  Can Trump’s coal comeback last? Experts say no

  The Department of Energy has issued emergency orders delaying retirements of multiple coal-fired power plants and the Trump administration has issued an April executive order promoting coal to meet rising electricity demand from AI data centers.

  • DOE emergency orders: Chris Wright has issued emergency orders delaying retirement of at least five of the 11 plants slated for closure, renewing them every 90 days; under these orders, plant operators can seek FERC approval to recover costs from customers, with examples such as the J.H. Campbell plant’s expenses being spread across millions of Midwest ratepayers.
  • Context & impacts: Analysts estimate keeping slated plants open through 2028 could cost ratepayers up to $6 billion, on top of a $6 billion increase in coal-fired generation costs from 2021–2024; roughly 25 gigawatts of aging coal capacity may continue operating to meet data center demand through 2030, while the EPA and Interior Department actions have eased pollution constraints and opened lands to mining.
• Jan 21, 2026

  Issues of the Environment: Shaping 2026 environmental policy in Michigan

  State Senator Sue Shink announced legislation and is lead sponsor on transparency and grid-innovation bills related to large data centers.

  • Main announcement: Senator Sue Shink is the lead sponsor of Senate Bill 762 (2025) to require the Michigan Public Service Commission to publish annual reports on energy consumption and water usage by large data centers; she also backed Senate Bills 731 and 732 (2025) (introduced with Sen. Jeff Irwin) to create a legal framework for virtual power plants aggregating rooftop solar and battery storage.
  • Background and details: Shink said hyperscale data centers (e.g., the Saline Township proposal) can use as much electricity as one quarter of what the entire state of Michigan uses, referenced opposition to expedited/confidential MPSC approvals, cited that DTE is assured a 10% rate of return, and noted Senator Rosemary Bayer introduced a bill to prohibit water withdrawals over two million gallons a day.
• Jan 21, 2026

  Virginia proposes 20.78GW storage mandate as Trump, governors call for emergency PJM grid measures

  Virginia state delegate Richard C. ‘Rip’ Sullivan, Jr has introduced HB895 to raise mandatory energy storage procurement targets for Appalachian Power and Dominion Energy Virginia.

  • Main announcement: HB895 would require Appalachian Power to add 780MW short-duration by 2040 and 520MW long-duration by 2045, and Dominion Energy to add 16,000MW short-duration and 3,480MW long-duration by 2045; the bill is nearly identical to HB2537 (vetoed May 2025) but raises Dominion’s short-duration target from 5,220MW to 16,000MW within the same timeframe.
  • Background and related actions: The Trump administration and a bipartisan group of governors urged PJM (16 January) to hold an emergency procurement auction and to build more than US$15 billion of baseload generation; PJM responded by initiating a “Reliability Backstop Procurement” and directed immediate process discussions and deadlines to be considered at the 22 January Members Committee meeting. The bill and procurement push are motivated by rapidly rising demand in Virginia—driven largely by data centres—and recommendations from groups such as MAREC Action, NRDC, and Environment America.
• Jan 21, 2026

  Data centers could drive Michigan air pollution higher with climate law loophole: Science nonprofit

  The Union of Concerned Scientists has called on the Michigan Legislature to enact a CO2 Reduction Policy to close a legal loophole that exempts electricity exports from state clean-energy targets.

  • Main action: UCS released a report recommending a “CO2 Reduction Policy” that would cap fossil fuel burning for out-of-state sales and achieve net zero by 2050, with a phased target of 80% reductions for out-of-state sales by 2040 and 100% by 2045; the report projects electricity exports rising from “minimal” today to more than 56 gigawatt-hours annually and forecasts fossil fuel emissions from Michigan utilities could rise 26% between 2023 and 2050 if the loophole remains.
  • Context and details: Michigan law currently requires 100% clean energy for retail sales by 2040 but does not apply to electricity sold to other states (per Michigan Public Service Commission); UCS notes Michigan’s two largest utilities could see up to 22 gigawatts of load growth from data centers and that even 5 GW of new demand could, combined with electrification, double state energy consumption by 2050.
• Jan 21, 2026

  Multi-Partner Project: Multi-GPU Performance Portability Analysis for CFD Simulations at Scale

  Panagiotis-Eleftherakis and co-authors (REFMAP project) have published an arXiv paper analyzing the performance portability of the SOD2D Spectral Elements CFD framework across AMD and NVIDIA GPUs (arXiv:2601.14159, submitted 20 Jan 2026).

  • Main action: The paper reports a multi-level performance and scalability analysis of SOD2D, including single-GPU characterization and scale tests on the LUMI multi-GPU cluster, documenting 0.69× - 3.91× deviations in acceleration speedup and highlighting variability across vendor-specific compiler stacks and memory-access optimizations.
  • Background and details: The work is produced by a multi-institution team (National Technical University of Athens, KTH, HPE France, TU Delft, University of Michigan) under the REFMAP context; it provides a full-stack design-space characterization (application, software, hardware) and cites profiling results from LUMI; submission date 20 Jan 2026 and DOI https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2601.14159.
• Jan 21, 2026

  Months later, lawsuit between nature school and bitcoin mine continues

  Lake Superior Academy (LSA) has filed a civil lawsuit against Odessa Partners over noise from a bitcoin-mining data center across the street; the dispute has continued into its seventh month.

  • Main announcement: LSA filed a civil lawsuit in June 2025 seeking damages for irreparable harm caused by noise from a cluster of data center units; mediation attempts stalled, the judge denied a jury trial request and ordered another 120-day mediation period.
  • Background & procedural details: LSA Superintendent Susie Schlehuber described stalled mediation where she asked the operator not to grow or become louder in exchange for dropping litigation; Odessa Partners filed a counter-suit seeking a bond to cover alleged damages (the judge did not grant the bond request).
• Jan 17, 2026

  Data center news: DTE agrees to power terms for Saline Township data center

  DTE Energy accepted conditions from the Michigan Public Service Commission for special contracts to power an OpenAI and Oracle data center in Saline Township.

  • DTE Energy accepted commission conditions to supply power under special contracts for a proposed 1.4-gigawatt Saline Township data center involving OpenAI and Oracle; Attorney General Dana Nessel and others requested a rehearing of the Dec. 18 fast-tracked approval, while DTE reserved rights to challenge future commission decisions and confirmed aggregate revenues will cover service costs.
  • Related local actions and details: Lyon Township residents and experts flagged risks for a planned 1.8-million-square-foot site; Saline Township site work continues on a 2.2-million-square-foot project after rezoning of 575 acres; Lansing City Council proposed dedicating 10% of Board of Water and Light revenue from data center utility use to housing services (final vote expected by late February); Saginaw adopted a 6-month moratorium to craft rules and encourage development on post-industrial brownfields; Van Buren Township and Allen Park controversies noted (Van Buren: up to 3.6 million gallons of water a day; Allen Park: 26-megawatt proposal).
• Jan 17, 2026

  Will AI kickstart a new age of nuclear power?

  The UN article reports that the IAEA convened policymakers, technology companies and nuclear industry leaders in Vienna to explore how nuclear power can enable AI expansion and how AI can drive innovation in nuclear energy.

  • Main announcement/action: The IAEA-led discussions in Vienna brought together policymakers, technology companies and nuclear industry leaders to examine nuclear energy as a core solution for powering AI; cited figures include expected global electricity growth of >10,000 TWh by 2035, 71 new reactors under construction, and 441 reactors currently operating. The article highlights concrete corporate actions: Microsoft signed a 20-year power purchase agreement that enabled the restart of Unit One at Three Mile Island, and Google has signed an agreement to buy energy from multiple small modular reactors (a global first) with possible operation by 2030.
  • Background and additional details: The piece lists evidence and timelines: data-centre demand rose by more than three quarters between 2023 and 2024, and is expected to account for over 20% of electricity-demand growth in advanced economies by 2030; the US is specifically noted for predicted AI-driven power consumption surpassing combined aluminium, steel, cement and chemical sectors by the end of the decade. It also notes SMRs have shorter deployment footprints and upgraded safety systems versus large reactors (large plants often have ~10-year lead times), and that the IAEA is working with regulators and industry to accelerate SMR viability.