OpenAI’s Stargate Data Center Approved in Michigan as American Anger Starts to Boil

OpenAI said yesterday that it needs more computing power, and it is going to get what it wants—regardless of how anyone else feels about it. The Detroit Free Press reported that the Michigan Public Service Commission has given the green light to energy company DTE Energy to provide 1.4 gigawatts of power to a data center that will be a part of one of OpenAI’s planned Stargate projects.

The approval—which means the data center set to be built in Saline Township, about 40 miles…