Detroit — Michigan's turn hosting massive data centers to power Big Tech is just getting started.

Ask Joi Harris, new CEO of DTE Energy Co. The utility serving Michigan's southeastern corner asked regulators to skip public hearings and quickly approve its request to supply power for a 1.4-gigawatt data center in rural Saline Township. The deal's backed by heavyweights Oracle, ChatGPT maker OpenAI and Related Digital, a firm with ties to billionaire Stephen Ross, a major University of Michigan donor.

For starters, what's the rush?

"It's very competitive," Harris told The Detroit News in an interview. "They're trying to get online as soon as possible. These data centers, AI, you have to go through the process of training, training the models so that they can be used for inference. And so

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