Michigan AG Urges Revisit on Oracle Data Center Power Plan (3)

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel moved for a reconsideration of the approval for utility DTE Energy to power a massive data center development planned by Oracle and OpenAI and called the companies “untrustworthy” in a statement Thursday.

Nessel said regulators should reopen the matter because DTE hasn’t done enough to protect its customers. “These contracts are simply too consequential for the future of energy affordability in Michigan to keep granting fast-track secret review and approvals to untrustworthy partners like DTE, Oracle and OpenAI,” Nessel said in the statement.

The fast and unexpected build-out of US data centers has transformed the ...