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In a filing Tuesday, the utility company applied for the increase, less than three months after the utility received approval for a $217 million rate increase request submitted last year.

What Oracle and OpenAI execs said about Michigan investments at the groundbreaking of a massive data center in Saline Township. A northeast Ohio community reacts to multiple Bigfoot sightings. Proposed limits on corporate political donations in Michigan. And the work of a statewide program fighting invasive species on a constricted budget.

Wondering why data centers are suddenly everywhere in the news? We’ll break it down. Plus, why the backlash isn’t falling along the usual party lines and what Michigan can learn from how voters in other states have responded.

As artificial intelligence drives a surge in demand for data center space, Michigan is taking steps to ensure that everyday Consumers Energy consumers aren't left footing the bill for costly grid expansions needed to support these facilities' enormous appetites for power.

On Thursday, the Michigan Public Service Commission approved raising the bill credit to $42 per day for customers who endure prolonged or frequent power outages.

A Republican-sponsored bill would cap solar energy at 20% of Michigan's grid and restrict where solar farms can be built.

Budget woes hit the Detroit Downriver suburb of Ecorse, following the cougars of Michigan, upgrading the state's power grid and supply and updates on the damage caused by ice storms in the Upper Peninsula.

The Energy Department's conditional loans to DTE Energy and Consumers Energy are part of the Inflation Reduction Act - a law President elect Donald Trump says he wants to repeal.

Consumers says that, working with the Canadian company Ashcor Technologies, its coal ash will be transformed into something that could benefit the environment instead.

Dana Nessel’s office argues that DTE and Consumers’ Energy are vastly overestimating the amount needed to improve service and reliability for residential customers.