00:00About 200 protesters made their voices heard in downtown Saline this evening.
00:09That's US 12 and Ann Arbor Road.
00:12All ages came out protesting what Governor Whitmer is calling the biggest investment in the state of Michigan.
00:20This $7 billion hyperscale data center set to be built in the farmlands of rural Washtenaw County.
00:27These residents are fired up.
00:30Because it matters to local residents.
00:32It doesn't matter where you come from politically.
00:35We recognize together our power and that matters more than anything else.
00:39We want to take care of our land, our culture, our way of life.
00:43We do not want to be taken advantage of by big tech companies and lying billionaires' buckets.
00:48It's just not the way it's going to go.
00:49Now check this out.
00:50Just four or five miles west of downtown Saline is the farm where this data center is going to be built if approved on Friday.
00:58Again, Friday is the Michigan Public Service Commission's hearing on the utility plan here, the DTE plan to power this facility.
01:07Looks like crews are already out here putting up power lines, stringing cables, doing the groundwork for what these residents say is going to be an almighty nightmare.
01:15Tim Pamplin, WWJ Newsradio 950.
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