"Stop the Stargate Power Grab: to Protect Michigan’s Grid"
The Issue
🏛️ The Library-Led Public AI Infrastructure
The Trusted Hub: Public libraries will manage the local AI infrastructure, ensuring a neutral, secure, and privacy-first environment.
The 3-Year Assembly-Line Governance: Strict 1-year director rotations prevent personal power grabs. Director A drafts the plan, Director B can veto or execute, and Director C audits for flaws.
Individual Data Sovereignty: No group votes on your privacy. Your data belongs to you. If corporations want third-party information, they must pay an incentive directly to you, the individual, for your permission.
🛑 Stop the Utility Squeeze & Secret Corporate Deals
Expose the Summer Peak Surcharge: While Consumers Energy enforces "Summer Peak Rates" that hike our bills when families need air conditioning the most, they are quietly trying to lock down a massive new $456 million rate increase.
No Subsidies for Secret Contracts: We demand total transparency on the energy contracts being drawn up for multi-gigawatt corporate data center projects. Michigan residents will not subsidize private corporate infrastructure while our own bills skyrocket.
The Issue: Michigan's Power and Future are Under Siege
The Problem: Corporate Overreach
Right now, Michigan is being targeted for massive "hyperscale" data centers, like the Stargate Project in Saline. These facilities are designed to consume up to 1.4 Gigawatts of power—enough to electricity 1.1 million Michigan homes.
The Threat: Your Wallet and Your Mind
The Energy Crisis: While families are being hit with a $272 million DTE rate hike (March 2026), these corporations are getting special deals. If the grid isn't protected, everyday ratepayers will be the ones subsidizing the massive infrastructure upgrades these AI "monsters" require.
The "Regime" of Control: Corporations want to implement a "bottom floor" AI regime where they own the technology that teaches our children and runs our jobs. We risk losing our cognitive sovereignty to a private "black box" that prioritizes profit over people.
The Solution: HB 5594 and a Public AI Utility
We are demanding that Michigan lawmakers take two immediate steps:
Pass HB 5594: We need an immediate one-year moratorium on all large-scale corporate data center construction until April 2027. This gives us time to build real protections for our grid and our water.
Declare AI a Public Utility: We want a future where AI is a Public Utility—owned by the community, powered by local micro-grids, and audited by Michigan parents and teachers.
We don't want their "bottom floor." We want to own the building. Reclaim Michigan's future today.
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The Issue
🏛️ The Library-Led Public AI Infrastructure
The Trusted Hub: Public libraries will manage the local AI infrastructure, ensuring a neutral, secure, and privacy-first environment.
The 3-Year Assembly-Line Governance: Strict 1-year director rotations prevent personal power grabs. Director A drafts the plan, Director B can veto or execute, and Director C audits for flaws.
Individual Data Sovereignty: No group votes on your privacy. Your data belongs to you. If corporations want third-party information, they must pay an incentive directly to you, the individual, for your permission.
🛑 Stop the Utility Squeeze & Secret Corporate Deals
Expose the Summer Peak Surcharge: While Consumers Energy enforces "Summer Peak Rates" that hike our bills when families need air conditioning the most, they are quietly trying to lock down a massive new $456 million rate increase.
No Subsidies for Secret Contracts: We demand total transparency on the energy contracts being drawn up for multi-gigawatt corporate data center projects. Michigan residents will not subsidize private corporate infrastructure while our own bills skyrocket.
The Issue: Michigan's Power and Future are Under Siege
The Problem: Corporate Overreach
Right now, Michigan is being targeted for massive "hyperscale" data centers, like the Stargate Project in Saline. These facilities are designed to consume up to 1.4 Gigawatts of power—enough to electricity 1.1 million Michigan homes.
The Threat: Your Wallet and Your Mind
The Energy Crisis: While families are being hit with a $272 million DTE rate hike (March 2026), these corporations are getting special deals. If the grid isn't protected, everyday ratepayers will be the ones subsidizing the massive infrastructure upgrades these AI "monsters" require.
The "Regime" of Control: Corporations want to implement a "bottom floor" AI regime where they own the technology that teaches our children and runs our jobs. We risk losing our cognitive sovereignty to a private "black box" that prioritizes profit over people.
The Solution: HB 5594 and a Public AI Utility
We are demanding that Michigan lawmakers take two immediate steps:
Pass HB 5594: We need an immediate one-year moratorium on all large-scale corporate data center construction until April 2027. This gives us time to build real protections for our grid and our water.
Declare AI a Public Utility: We want a future where AI is a Public Utility—owned by the community, powered by local micro-grids, and audited by Michigan parents and teachers.
We don't want their "bottom floor." We want to own the building. Reclaim Michigan's future today.
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Petition created on March 31, 2026