As southeast Michigan debates the environmental and community concerns of the multi-billion-dollar AI data center slated for development in Saline Township, an important point has been largely absent from the conversation: the highly questionable but perfectly legal relationships likely helping the center slither its way through our government and toward fast-track approval.

The developer behind the Trump-backed Stargate data center , which will cover about 200 football fields and service AI companies such as Oracle and OpenAI, is called Related Companies. It just so happens that the VP of development for that company, Ryan Friedrichs , is married to current Secretary of State and Democratic candidate for governor Jocelyn Benson, a detail surfaced last week by online outlet The Mid

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