— At its regular meeting on July 21, the Independence Township Board of Trustees unanimously approved a six-month moratorium on the development of data centers in the township. “There’s been a lot of conversations in the news about data centers. “That proposal is not a moratorium on the data center. “It has also been advertised that the major gigawatts data centers have accepted her Michigan Affordable and Reasonable Growth Act plan. The fourth speaker was Bill Scarborough, chair of the Planning Commission, who also supported the moratorium.