Michigan

July 2, 2026

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FERC Orders Six Grid Operators to Defend the Rules or Rewrite Them

In Wisconsin, Oracle sued to overturn We Energies collateral requirements, but the challenge is weaker than it looks: Indiana, Michigan, and Ohio use the same A-/A3 rating floor Amazon, Google, and Microsoft already accepted.

June 29, 2026

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Washington Set the Deadline. Texas Already Wrote the Playbook.

A Sunrise Movement cofounder is running a Michigan swing-district race on a statewide moratorium platform.

June 24, 2026

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Reeves County Banks 6,000 Jobs as the Behind-the-Meter Model Scales

Michigan's data center fight became a 2026 election flashpoint after Gov. Whitmer's Saline Township groundbreaking drew blowback, and three northern townships passed moratoriums driven as much by missing transmission as by sentiment.

June 21, 2026

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Cost-Causation Is Here. Generation-First Siting Wins the 226 GW Queue.

The mechanics elsewhere point the same way: Michigan's Senate package would require 20 years of prepaid power and ban project-term NDAs.

June 7, 2026

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Permits Hit a 49-Year High as 70% Push Back. Texas Tightens Instead.

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer captured the governing logic at a $16B hyperscale groundbreaking: hold developers to high standards locally rather than watch them build badly elsewhere.

April 9, 2026

Pimco's potential $14 billion debt package for Oracle's Michigan campus shows capital remains available, but regulatory certainty is a prerequisite for deployment at scale.

March 3, 2026

Michigan became the latest state where bipartisan legislators introduced moratorium bills, with State Rep. Jennifer Wortz (R-Quincy) filing three House bills to freeze datacenter permitting through April 1, 2027.