State and local communities wrangle over data centers | WTVB

Michigan municipalities are shifting from outright bans to targeted zoning restrictions on data centers after state law (Section 207) prohibited exclusionary zoning; Governor Whitmer is pushing legislative guardrails to ensure operators fund their own infrastructure upgrades. If you're building data centres in Michigan, state law just made local bans illegal—but municipalities are now weaponising zoning to make you build elsewhere or pay for grid upgrades yourself. Call your target sites now; the cost of operating in restricted zones is about to get written into permanent ordinances.