{"id":9724,"date":"2025-09-11T15:00:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T15:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/9724\/"},"modified":"2025-09-11T15:00:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T15:00:07","slug":"data-center-for-ai-computing-rejected-in-farming-community-near-ann-arbor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/9724\/","title":{"rendered":"Data center for AI, computing rejected in farming community near Ann Arbor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" loading=\"eager\" alt=\"Saline Township data center opposition\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"hero-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/G5HIVGJQCJEMNJ4II34PZXGDGQ.jpeg\" \/>Residents stand in opposition to Related Digital&#8217;s proposal to rezone land in Saline Township for a computer data center, Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2025.Jen Eberbach\/MLive<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"GV6IT5WIWRGB7N4QH2MOAZDEME\">SALINE TWP., MI \u2014 As artificial intelligence and computing technologies evolve at a fast pace, people carrying signs reading \u201cNO DATA CENTER\u201d got their wish at a packed meeting in a rural township near Ann Arbor. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"FAPNKDUBZRFLTGKWSBHAFRP6KI\">Saline Township officials voted to deny Dallas, Texas-based development firm Related Digital\u2018s request to rezone farmland for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlive.com\/news\/ann-arbor\/2025\/08\/our-rural-culture-under-attack-residents-debate-22m-square-foot-data-center-near-saline.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.mlive.com\/news\/ann-arbor\/2025\/08\/our-rural-culture-under-attack-residents-debate-22m-square-foot-data-center-near-saline.html\">a 2.2-million-square-foot computer data center<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--center skimlinks\">If you purchase a product or register for an account through a link on our site, we may receive compensation. By using this site, you consent to our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.advancelocal.com\/advancelocalUserAgreement\/user-agreement.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">User Agreement<\/a> and agree that your clicks, interactions, and personal information may be collected, recorded, and\/or stored by us and social media and other third-party partners in accordance with our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.advancelocal.com\/advancelocalUserAgreement\/privacy-policy.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Privacy Policy.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Residents stand in opposition to Related Digital&#8217;s proposal to rezone land in Saline Township for a computer data&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9725,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[353,85,46,125],"class_list":{"0":"post-9724","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-computing","8":"tag-computing","9":"tag-il","10":"tag-israel","11":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9724\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}