NPR. This is the Indicator from Planet Money.
I'm Darian Woods.
And today, Dustin Dwyer is joining us from member station Michigan Public.
Hey, Dustin.
Hey, Darian.
So look, I wanted to tell you about this meeting I went to not that long ago.
It was a planning commission meeting for a little place called Pavilion Township, Michigan.
Okay, haven't heard of that town before.
Yeah, you know, I hadn't actually either, even though I live like about an hour away.
But so at the meeting,
what they were going to talk about was a zoning ordinance amendment to allow data centers.
Yeah, there's a lot of data center talk at the moment.
Yeah, because there's such a huge factor in the economy right now.
These are the massive buildings filled with the computers to power all these new AI models.
And it turns out data centers are a new hot button issue in local government.
So I went to this meeting expecting just like a boring little discussion about this zoning amendment,
but it was not.
The place was packed.
All right, we call the meeting to order.
So these people, they're all against the data center?