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November 06, 2025
LANSING – Today, Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel filed a notice of intervention (PDF) before the Michigan Public Service Commission (MPSC) in the case concerning DTE’s request for approval of two special contracts to service an anticipated data center. In her notice, the Attorney General urges the MPSC to treat the requests as a contested case and conduct public hearings on the matter, citing significant unknown details surrounding the project and the potential financial risks to utility ratepayers across DTE’s service territory. A formal public hearing with discovery and filed testimony will allow parties, such as the Attorney General, the opportunity to verify protections and cost reductions to customers proposed by the utility corporation and provide the Commission with a full evidentiary record to decide whether the special contract is prudent and reasonable.
“Reducing electric bills and making energy affordable is essential,” said Nessel. “That’s why I’m asking the Commission to hold a public hearing on this case – to make sure DTE customers are not stuck footing the bill for a data center that never comes to fruition or uses far less electricity than projected. In either scenario, the massive costs of building the data center won't just disappear. The costs would be passed on to ratepayers, driving up bills for families. A public hearing is the only way to ensure transparency, give customers all the facts, and confirm DTE’s proposal truly protects Michiganders before any approval is granted.”
Last week, DTE Electric filed an ex parte request for approval of two special contracts to provide electric service to a 1.4-gigawatt data center proposed to be built near Saline, Michigan. As stated in the filing by DTE, the data center customer is Green Chile Ventures LLC, a subsidiary of Oracle Corporation.
An ex parte request requires no public hearing, and no party is allowed to conduct discovery and file testimony for the Commission to review before deciding to approve the special contract. As noted in contemporary media reporting, the addition of 1.4 gigawatts is similar to adding more than 1 million average American homes – or the size of a large city in DTE’s service territory. In response to Consumers Energy’s ex parte request for a data center or large load tariff earlier in the year, the MPSC rejected the ex parte request and noted that “[t]he electric load of new data centers presents unique and significant cost implications, and the development of an evidentiary record to consider the February 7 application is prudent and reasonable.”
Since taking office, the Attorney General has helped save Michigan consumers over $4 billion by intervening in utility cases before the MPSC. Today’s intervention and request for hearing reaffirms her commitment to affordable energy for consumers.
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