At least four major data center projects are in the works in southern Michigan.

Some communities, like Salem Township, are less than thrilled about data centers and the power demands they require.

Data centers also use a large volume of water to cool equipment used to generate power.

As companies such as Google, Microsoft and Amazon scramble to ramp up their artificial intelligence, cloud computing and other digital capabilities, the massive amounts of computational power they need have required construction of data centers throughout the U.S. and the globe.

Now these warehouses full of computers are coming to Michigan − and high-powered computing requires high power.

Indiana-Michigan Power Co., a utility whose service area extends into southwest Michigan, in an update earlier this ye

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