In the waning days of their governing trifecta, the leadership of the Michigan Democrats cast a decisive vote for fracking-powered paperclip maximizing.
The bill isn't just a tax giveaway for Silicon Valley data centers, it also exempts them from Michigan's 100% clean energy target.
Disgusting.
#climate #mipol #migov #michigan #datacenters #fossilfuels #google #cleanenergy #ai
Data server farms are big business. But it takes a ton of energy to store data in the cloud, prompting concerns among environmentalists. Michigan is poised to give the servers tens of millions of dollars in tax breaks.
Request 1231 - FOIA Log December 11-14, 2023
Submitted to the new Michigan Department of State FOIA system, once I figured out how to avoid this error message
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(and you probably needed MiLogin to renew your license plate, so you might well have that account already)
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“Well-targeted and sustained investments, tailored to local need.” —David Knight
Structuralizing the latest #miched budget commitments, funding adequacy and equity.
Whatever else #mileg #migov and other states do in their new sessions, these need to be the guiding principles.
https://twitter.com/dsknight84/status/1598029040577032193?s=46&t=t-baBSP5LQKoUuT6XeEUJg
“I'm seeing more and more folks using COVID-19 to recommend their favored ed reforms. I critiqued a recent example of this for @NEPCtweet. School systems need well-targeted and sustained investments, tailored to local need. Pandemic-era setbacks won’t be fixed by school choice.”