Technology

Michigan environmentalists are using growing concerns about AI safety to call for a pause in new data center projects.

Members of Michigan's congressional delegation support legislation to exclude data centers from tax exemptions and keeping development in the hands of local governments.

Michigan is spending more than $42 million on drone development as the market for unmanned aerial systems grows nationwide.

Development of large-scale data centers is booming across the Midwest and South. As some communities push back, local and state governments are trying to catch up on how to regulate the new development.

Meridian Township, east of Lansing, adopted a data center moratorium. Just a day earlier, Lowell Township, outside Grand Rapids, rejected one.

Some details about the data center proposed in Van Buren Township have been floating around for weeks. But the company pushing for it remained a mystery until Google put speculation to rest this week.

The new screening process will help doctors catch signs of heart disease earlier with the help of artificial intelligence.

The money will help clerks replace voting machines whose contracts expire in 2027.

Former Speaker of the Michigan House of Representatives and Republican candidate for governor, Tom Leonard, says he's concerned that the energy these centers use will drive up utility rates.

Michael Carbonara's name appears on the permit application and various business documents in connection with a bitcoin mine in the eastern Upper Peninsula. A local school is suing the operation over the noise being produced by the super computers.