Anita Ramaswamy, columnist at The Information, joins Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino for this week’s Tech Bytes: Week in Review.

Opponents of the project erupted with disapproval when Michigan Public Service Commission board members took the vote.

DTE must commit the data center for ChatGPT creator OpenAI and tech firm Oracle in Saline Township won’t burden other customers’ utility bills, regulators said.

Blue Owl Capital's decision to step away from financing an Oracle-backed (NYSE: ORCL) AI data center has become a fresh flashpoint for investors already on edge about the financial architecture behind the AI infrastructure boom.

DELTA TOWNSHIP — Michigan regulators on Thursday signed off on 19-year power contracts for a mammoth artificial intelligence data center near Ann Arbor, a key step forward for the multibillion-dollar project that has become a political flashpoint.

Michigan regulators unanimously approved a request from utility DTE Energy Co. to power a massive data center development planned by Oracle and OpenAI, during a contentious hearing where some members of the public pushed back on the project.

Oracle (ORCL) shares slid around 6% after talks with private capital group Blue Owl Capital (OWL) to finance a planned $10 billion data center in Michigan collapsed, raising doubts over a key project meant to power OpenAI and highlighting growing investor unease over the company's debt-fueled AI expansion.

Oracle has confirmed a continued rise in data center deals, with the value of its lease commitments totalling $248 billion as of November 30, 2025. We recently reported the company planned to raise Capex to $50 billion this fiscal year, up from an earlier forecast of $35 billion.