Michigan Water Moratorium Puts AI Data Center Expansion on Notice

The structural shift here is not the moratorium itself — it is that a local utility authority imposed it and the University of Michigan's only available response was a legal threat. That sequence establishes that water access for AI infrastructure is not a guaranteed input; it is a negotiated permission that community boards can revoke. The Ypsilanti Community Utilities Authority's resolution bars delivery and commitment of water and sewer services to hyperscale facilities for twelve months — long enough to outlast the next phase of site approvals for projects already…