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Hasan Piker: “For 7 gigawatts capacity. That could force the state to…”

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CAN DETROIT ELECT A PROGRESSIVE? | Donavan McKinney

Published | Video Starts at 44:25

These massive data centers, right? They're aggressively moving into Michigan to build these energy devouring AI data centers. And is negotiating deals behind closed door. We don't even know about it. For 7 gigawatts capacity. That could force the state to build new fossil fuel gas plants and gut Michigan's clean energy goals. Yeah. Meanwhile, and that goes back to like these, these plants and our over reliance on fossil fuels goes back to, you know, the childhood asthma that you experienced. (44:25–44:32)

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Asserts that the 7 gigawatts capacity of new data centers could necessitate new fossil fuel plants, undermining Michigan's clean energy goals.

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