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"textContent": "\nUnsurprisingly, the few thousand residents of the small community of Saline Township in Washtenaw County, Michigan, were worried about OpenAI and Oracle's massive new $16 billion Stargate data center. Their concerns covered the usual issues: excessive water usage, the power draw on the regional grid, a huge increase in traffic,...\n\nRead Entire Article\n\n",
"title": "Michigan residents voted down a $16 billion Stargate AI data center, then construction began anyway"
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