Mason Community for Responsible Growth

06/12/2026

City of Mason agenda packet for Monday’s meeting 🚨

➡️ Featuring letters in SUPPORT of Data Centers in Mason from Ingham ISD and National Electrical Contractors Association 💰

➡️ Says the developer intends to pursue Annexation

➡️ Attorney correspondence appearing to indicate the City may adopt the Noise Ordinance citizen initiative then amend or repeal it ‼️

➡️ Data Center communication timeline between City and Township

🔥 Mason City Council Meeting
🗓️ Monday, June 15, 2026
📍 City Hall, 201 W Ash St, Mason

06/05/2026

🏡❤️ MASON COMMUNITY ~ WE NEED YOUR VOICE ❤️🏡

📢 DATA CENTER UPDATE & CALL TO ACTION

What We Know

The City of Mason has confirmed that the current proposed hyperscale data center development is targeting the property at 3388 W. Columbia Road in Mason - 300+ acres bordered by Columbia Rd, College Rd, Howell Rd, and US127/Sycamore Village.

Data center developments often cluster, so this proposal may be only the beginning of a much larger industrialization of our community.

City Manager Deb Stuart is currently negotiating with Vevay Township regarding a potential PA 425 Agreement to transfer agricultural land from Vevay Township to the City of Mason for this data center campus.

📢 CALL TO ACTION

Vevay Township Board of Trustees Meeting

🗓 Wednesday, June 10, 2026
⏰ 6:30 PM
📍 Vevay Township Hall, 780 Eden Road, Mason, MI 48854

🎤 You will have up to 3 minutes to make a public comment.

🤝 Please attend and *RESPECTFULLY* share your thoughts. If you love this community, this is an opportunity to explain why you don't want to see a 425 Land Transfer Agreement for hyperscale data center development.

Mason is a special place. Its rural character, farmland, quiet roads, wildlife, families, and close knit neighborhoods are worth protecting. The Vevay Township Board has consistently shown that it cares deeply about the PEOPLE who live here.

Let's show up respectfully, thoughtfully, and united. Let's remind our elected officials what makes this area worth preserving and what is at stake if this agricultural land is transferred for a hyperscale industrial development.

❤️ The future of our community depends our participation.

Please attend. Please speak.

*Red line indicates approximate 150 foot setback

06/02/2026

In case you missed last night’s Mason City Council meeting, City Manager Deb Stuart shared several important updates regarding the proposed data center project and the City’s plans moving forward.

05/24/2026

“Backup” diesel generators at hyperscale data centers may no longer be used only for rare emergencies or brief testing - they could increasingly be treated as an on-call grid reliability resource that operators can require to run during power shortages or extreme weather events.

In practice, that can translate into more frequent and longer-duration generator operation, bringing additional diesel exhaust, noise, vibration, and air quality impacts to nearby neighborhoods.

The bigger issue is that this creates a precedent: once hundreds of generators are viewed as part of regional grid support infrastructure, residents living next to a data center could effectively end up living beside a power plant during grid emergencies.

That raises serious concerns about cumulative emissions, nighttime noise, fuel storage, and the erosion of claims that generators are only for “occasional backup use.”

“the Order suggests that the DOE is increasingly likely to allow grid operators like PJM to rely on private data center backup power as a grid reliability resource that those grid operators, with DOE’s approval, can compel into service.”

Secretary Wright issues an emergency order to stabilize the grid amid unseasonably warm temperatures

05/01/2026

NYT Article featuring Mason’s Rita Vogel and Paula Caltrider 🔥

Americans have soured on data centers, polls show, and the sentiment is profoundly bipartisan. How that will change our politics?

04/16/2026

PUBLIC COMMENT ON AI DATA CENTERS IN LANSING!

Chair Steve Carra has opened up next Wednesday's Oversight Subcommittee meeting to public comment about AI data centers. THIS is your opportunity to show up and tell Michigan legislators, in person, what you think about data centers–and their state subsidies.

Scuttlebutt is that Lansing legislators are seriously considering passing the statewide data center moratorium. Next Wednesday is an opportunity to tip the scale. Let's suit up and show up, folks.

Pre-register to public comment using the Google Form provided by Chair Carra:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSetkk2bSs4rcXmvg07JeqNOkjrPFEe8WTvLfH9WL3aV4z9EtQ/viewform?pli=1