Governor Whitmer's AI Center Approval Sparks Local Backlash

Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer is losing thousands of supporters with her most recent endorsement of OpenAI and Oracle opening up a data center south of Ann Arbor, after a recent gathering showing her approval of the new AI data center.

Ever since the news broke and the photo was released, thousands of people who once supported Gretchen Whitmer are saying that she completely sold out our state with her shocking endorsement.

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Whitmer Has Lost Massive Support

I'm so frustrated with her muscling over all the small town people who absolutely did not want the water sucking, environment destroying, home value slashing data centers. We live in a small Michigan town with a cornfield just half a block away. We are all so upset that our zoning board will cave. I love my house and don't want to move because I know that constant, non-stop loud hum that residents have recorded would drive me crazy.
-Ann M.

As one person pointed out, there seems to be nobody who will stick up for average Americans anymore from either side:

Unfortunately, you will find more and more that both sides of the aisle are taking money to sell their constituents out. Because they can. And no one is stopping them. -Zan A.

In September, the Saline Township Board and the planning commission rejected the 575-acre project in a 4 to1 vote. Following the vote, the developers, Related Digital, and local landowners sued the township for "exclusionary zoning," claiming Saline unreasonably barred necessary land uses, and began construction.

AI data centers are a heavily strong topic of debate, considering how much water they use and the noise that the plants produce. The data center, run by Hyperscale in Dowagiac, is facing a class action lawsuit over unreasonable and excessive noise from its cooling fans, with people like the sound of having a vacuum cleaner running all the time.

People are worried that the property value of their homes has significantly dipped, considering they will now have the challenge of having to sell their house near such an obscene amount of noise.