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          "title": "University of Michigan's Ypsilanti Township computing center plans meet with anger at town hall: 'Enormous distrust' - Planet Detroit",
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          "summary": "Saline Township hired acoustic engineer Darren Brown to independently review noise study for Oracle and OpenAI data center",
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          "title": "OpenAI data center project south of Ann Arbor hits 1 million work hours - MLive.com",
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