{"id":221139,"date":"2026-05-27T12:49:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T16:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/27\/poll-finds-michigan-voters-dont-want-data-centers-nearby\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T13:05:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T17:05:10","slug":"poll-finds-michigan-voters-dont-want-data-centers-nearby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/27\/poll-finds-michigan-voters-dont-want-data-centers-nearby\/","title":{"rendered":"Poll Finds Michigan Voters Don\u2019t Want Data Centers Nearby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.govtech.com\/artificial-intelligence\/poll-finds-michigan-voters-dont-want-data-centers-nearby\">Poll Finds Michigan Voters Don\u2019t Want Data Centers Nearby<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.govtech.com\/artificial-intelligence\/poll-finds-michigan-voters-dont-want-data-centers-nearby\">https:\/\/www.govtech.com\/artificial-intelligence\/poll-finds-michigan-voters-dont-want-data-centers-nearby<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-27 12:49:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.govtech.com\">www.govtech.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here is a summary of the article using an unordered list with key points:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Initial Opposition to Data Centers:<\/strong> Only one in three Michigan voters were initially open to having a data center built within 25 miles of their home; 55% opposed it, and 11% were undecided. <\/li>\n<li><strong>Importance of Safeguards:<\/strong> Voters showed strong support for specific safeguards such as guarantees that data centers wouldn&#8217;t raise electric rates and that they would use &#8220;closed loop&#8221; systems to reduce water consumption.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Positive Sentiment with Safeguards:<\/strong> When presented with these safeguards, 48.7% of voters said they were open to a data center being built in their area, up from the initial 33.3%.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Political Divide:<\/strong> While Democrats&#8217; support for data centers increased with safeguards, a plurality of Republicans remained opposed.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Minimal State Regulation:<\/strong> There is no uniform set of state standards for data centers in Michigan, and legislation to create them has stalled.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Existing Legislative Standards:<\/strong> Facilities still receive minimum state standards including not being subsidized by other ratepayers and large reliance on clean energy.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Support for Renewable Energy:<\/strong> 73.7% of voters viewed projects receiving a specific minimum amount of electricity from renewables as important.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Criticism of Regulatory Process:<\/strong> Critics argue that current regulatory processes are too fast and favor utilities, potentially at the expense of consumer protections.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poll Finds Michigan Voters Don\u2019t Want Data Centers Nearby https:\/\/www.govtech.com\/artificial-intelligence\/poll-finds-michigan-voters-dont-want-data-centers-nearby Publish Date: 2026-05-27 12:49:00 Source&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":221140,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/erepublic.brightspotcdn.com\/dims4\/default\/48c9cca\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/949x461+0+84\/resize\/1440x700!\/quality\/90\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Ferepublic-brightspot.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com%2F43%2F34%2F601ec375481540483b3cdd447dcd%2Fshutterstock-125192411.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221139"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221139"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":221141,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221139\/revisions\/221141"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}