(MI) Whitmer posing with OpenAI Sam Altman for a photo at the Saline Twp Data Center Site

[SamuelTheThird]

ughhh

https://www.reddit.com/r/Michigan/comments/1tu2k9p/whitmer_posing_with_openai_sam_altman_for_a_photo/

Saline voted against it, but got steamrolled

[ImNotGod]

1. Our electric bills are already through the roof in MI and AI is hungry! nt

[lame54]

2. Is she tired of her career?

[pat_k]

3. She claims they are "unavoidable infrastructure"

Yep. Just let them steamroll forward without questioning the destruction of the environment and quality of life,

[Mad_Machine76]

4. What a disappointment

Except for death and taxes, nothing else is inevitable and/or unavoidable.

[MichMan]

5. The size of this damn thing is disheartening

Driven past it dozens and dozens of times

[TheProle]

6. Reference for Michigan Residents

https://planetdetroit.org/2025/11/data-centers-water-energy-impact/#h-q-will-data-centers-make-my-electricity-bill-go-up