A bill to provide for and regulate moratoriums imposed by a local unit of government on large-scale data centers and cryptocurrency mining facilities; to provide for the adoption of certain zoning ordinance amendments; to regulate certain activities related to large-scale data centers and cryptocurrency mining facilities; and to provide for the powers and duties of certain state and local governmental officers and entities.
House Bills 5881 and 5882 amend Michigan's zoning law to require local ordinances to comply with the Data Center Planning and Responsibility Act, clarifies limits on local regulation of resource extraction and renewable energy projects.
Co-sponsored by Reps.
Referred to the Committee on Government Operations