Lucas Smolcic Larson

“There’s something special about looking through aisles and finding a movie." As a video store kid, this feature by @rosekellywhite hit the sweet spot! mlive.com/news/2026/04/r…

Administrative law judges overseeing utility rate hike requests in Michigan routinely recommend cutting profits for shareholders, which could save customers millions. These days, it rarely happens. mlive.com/news/2026/04/m…

NWS confirms the severe storm this morning was an EF-1.

Claude AI maker Anthropic in talks for Southeast Michigan hyperscale data center crainsdetroit.com/technology/cdb… @dustinpwalsh reports

A Las Vegas data center company says it wants to expand in small-town Michigan. It has submitted no plans. The local mayor says it has "bred uncertainty" and "eroded our confidence" the firm will do the right thing. mlive.com/news/2026/04/s…

there's so much punditry and analysis about electricity prices, but what are american actually paying on their bills? Heatmap and MIT teamed up to bring you THE ELECTRICITY PRICE HUB heatmap.news/energy/electri…

New: Whitmer met with Trump at White House today and says he committed to provide disaster aid for ice storms that hit northern MI last year, a reversal detroitnews.com/story/news/pol… via @detroitnews

As data centers are built in Michigan communities, we'll be asking the same questions. For now, New Carlisle offers a window into what residents might expect. 🔚

Others say this period of construction is just the "growing pains of progress," predicting things will slow down. In the meantime, residents fought a second data center proposal and won. You can hear about the backlash of a recent episode of The Daily nytimes.com/2026/02/16/pod…

Large-scale data centers for AI are coming to Michigan. So what's it like when one gets built in your backyard? I went to New Carlisle, Indiana, a tiny community surrounded by farm fields, to find out. 🧵 mlive.com/news/2026/02/w…

Here's background on some promising signs for DTE's efforts to improve nation-trailing outage performance. Still, experts say a lack of severe storms last year played a big role, and it's too early to declare victory. mlive.com/news/2026/02/a…

DTE secured a $242 million electric rate increase yesterday after posting the best reliability performance in 20+ years. Regulators slashed more than half of its rate request, but the hike lands amid growing anxiety about energy costs. mlive.com/news/2026/02/d…