Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) calls Gov. Whitmer disgusting for her support of a MI Data Center

[1srelluc]

MSN

Democratic Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer, who last week announced that she’s not running for President in 2028, posed with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on Monday at a groundbreaking ceremony for the $16 billion AI data center campus in Saline Township, Michigan, where a 1.4-gigawatt data center will be built on 250 acres of farmland.

Several residents of the rural town (population under 3,000) have been protesting the development since 2025, complaining about a lack of transparency, particularly regarding the data center’s massive energy needs.

Whitmer, who called the OpenAI and Oracle data center “the largest economic project in Michigan history,” said at the ceremony: “I will only ever open Michigan to companies that respect our strict environmental standards and protect our air, land and water. The Barn meets all those high standards.”

The project has been nicknamed the Barn due to its design and placement on former farmland.

Democratic Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) responded to the groundbreaking event on social media: “Disgusting. So disappointed in Governor Whitmer's support of data center expansions in our state especially when so many Michiganders are opposed.”



Sigh, as much as I hate to admit it......Just goes to show, a clock is right twice a day.

I'd have a really hard time voting for a hopeful that supported AI Data Centers in opposition to local public sentiment that is against them.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

MSN

Democratic Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer, who last week announced that she’s not running for President in 2028, posed with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on Monday at a groundbreaking ceremony for the $16 billion AI data center campus in Saline Township, Michigan, where a 1.4-gigawatt data center will be built on 250 acres of farmland.

Several residents of the rural town (population under 3,000) have been protesting the development since 2025, complaining about a lack of transparency, particularly regarding the data center’s massive energy needs.

Whitmer, who called the OpenAI and Oracle data center “the largest economic project in Michigan history,” said at the ceremony: “I will only ever open Michigan to companies that respect our strict environmental standards and protect our air, land and water. The Barn meets all those high standards.”

The project has been nicknamed the Barn due to its design and placement on former farmland.

Democratic Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) responded to the groundbreaking event on social media: “Disgusting. So disappointed in Governor Whitmer's support of data center expansions in our state especially when so many Michiganders are opposed.”



Sigh, as much as I hate to admit it......Just goes to show, a clock is right twice a day.

I'd have a really hard time voting for a hopeful that supported AI Data Centers in opposition to local public sentiment that is against them.

The town initially voted against the proposal 4-1, then they all got sued and eventually caved

 

[ColonelAngus]

Has a commie on this MB walked us through the math of powering the USA through the AI revolution without Fossil fuel and nuclear power?

Have they admitted they have always been FOS?

 

[1srelluc]

The town initially voted against the proposal 4-1, then they all got sued and eventually caved

Yeah, I bet the backstory is interesting.

 

[SeaMajor7]

I've seen lately a bunch of people claiming that this whole AI craze is a bubble much like when the internet blew up.
People suggesting the bubble is going to burst and a lot of $$$ being invested in data centers will be lost. They say it turns out AI is a really good language app, but it sucks at math and common sense. Sorry, no links at the moment.

 

[LordBrownTrout]

She opposes it because it was pushed by trump. I oppose it because it leads to a system than enslaves and kills billions. I oppose it because the US is in an exceptional water drought never recorded this low in history and yet nothing but silence from dems and repubs while these data centers use billions of water daily without recycling AND strain the power grids. Where are these million man lib marches in the streets opposing these data centers? Lets go. Ill join up with you.

 

[MisterBeale]

 

[WEATHER53]

Data is mostly facts and reality and Libbies want neither

 

[citygator]

MSN

Democratic Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer, who last week announced that she’s not running for President in 2028, posed with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on Monday at a groundbreaking ceremony for the $16 billion AI data center campus in Saline Township, Michigan, where a 1.4-gigawatt data center will be built on 250 acres of farmland.

Several residents of the rural town (population under 3,000) have been protesting the development since 2025, complaining about a lack of transparency, particularly regarding the data center’s massive energy needs.

Whitmer, who called the OpenAI and Oracle data center “the largest economic project in Michigan history,” said at the ceremony: “I will only ever open Michigan to companies that respect our strict environmental standards and protect our air, land and water. The Barn meets all those high standards.”

The project has been nicknamed the Barn due to its design and placement on former farmland.

Democratic Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) responded to the groundbreaking event on social media: “Disgusting. So disappointed in Governor Whitmer's support of data center expansions in our state especially when so many Michiganders are opposed.”



Sigh, as much as I hate to admit it......Just goes to show, a clock is right twice a day.

I'd have a really hard time voting for a hopeful that supported AI Data Centers in opposition to local public sentiment that is against them.

Your thread is a lie.

No surprise.

She called the building of the data center disgusting. She said she was disappointed in Whitmer.

Unless you have another quote you need to change your headline.

 

[marvin martian]

MSN

Democratic Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer, who last week announced that she’s not running for President in 2028, posed with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on Monday at a groundbreaking ceremony for the $16 billion AI data center campus in Saline Township, Michigan, where a 1.4-gigawatt data center will be built on 250 acres of farmland.

Several residents of the rural town (population under 3,000) have been protesting the development since 2025, complaining about a lack of transparency, particularly regarding the data center’s massive energy needs.

Whitmer, who called the OpenAI and Oracle data center “the largest economic project in Michigan history,” said at the ceremony: “I will only ever open Michigan to companies that respect our strict environmental standards and protect our air, land and water. The Barn meets all those high standards.”

The project has been nicknamed the Barn due to its design and placement on former farmland.

Democratic Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) responded to the groundbreaking event on social media: “Disgusting. So disappointed in Governor Whitmer's support of data center expansions in our state especially when so many Michiganders are opposed.”



Sigh, as much as I hate to admit it......Just goes to show, a clock is right twice a day.

I'd have a really hard time voting for a hopeful that supported AI Data Centers in opposition to local public sentiment that is against them.