Jocelyn Benson’s husband is VP of company forcing data center on Saline Township - Kyle Olsen 11-13

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Joining us now from the Midwestern the Midwesterner News with
the latest stories of the day and I look back
on a week. My good friend Kyle Olsen, thank you
for being here with us today.

Speaker 2 (00:10):
Good morning.

Speaker 1 (00:11):
Yeah, it's been a wild week, hasn't it. I Mean
we're only Thursday, but it's so far been a pretty
wild week, not just throughout obviously what's happening across the country,
but right here in Michigan as well. I know you've
been on top of some of the latest Johncelyn Benched,
we didn't get a chance to talk about this last
week as much as we really wanted to. This new

(00:31):
big mega plant they want to put in, this data plant,
but it turns out the same woman who's broken the
law multiple times over wants to oversee her own election.
By the way, it's not me saying that those are
judges saying that it wants to oversee her own election
as a governor here in the state of Michigan. We
turn out find that apparently that her husband is involved

(00:55):
in the latest this what some are calling this scam,
this scheme, but in a data center. And I don't
have all the answers on this yet, but at the
very least, this story seems kind of fishy itself.

Speaker 2 (01:10):
Yeah, basically what is happening is there's a company called
Related Companies, which was started by Stephen Ross who lives
in Florida. He's an uber wealthy individual. He's given a
lot of money to the University of Michigan. The vice
president of Related Companies is Ryan Friedrichs, who is Jocelyn

(01:32):
Benson's husband. One of their companies is called Related Digital,
and Related Digital is trying to put a data center
in Saline Township in southeast Michigan, and they're basically trying
to jam this through the locals. The local township cut

(01:55):
a deal because they concluded that the state is just
going to do whatever it wants despite the fact that
the local community doesn't want it. I mean, this is
like Goshen two point zero. But the state has the
power to say no, we're going to do this. And
so now what they're trying to do is they're trying
to fast track it and get the Michigan Public Service Commission,

(02:18):
which is Gretchen Whitmer appointees it's her administration, to approve
it so then they can start building this five hundred
and seventy five acre data center. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (02:32):
The question about data centers right now, you know there's
energy uses, there's water usage, is whether or not these
people want this type of thing in their back air,
which a whole another thing that goes along with the wind,
solar and unicorn farts. I think just a little more
push for data centers, particularly from President Trump and some
of the others who said, look, we got to these
are some of the things we've got to do. But

(02:52):
what they're going to do to prices on your energy
is a whole nother question. And you can't just cram
this stuff down on the so I know, they need
to move at break next speed. It would seem to
be able to compete with some of these things. They
really do need to have this conversation with the folks
who live there, the residents in these areas, to make
sure that they understand what they're getting themselves into.

Speaker 2 (03:16):
You would think that is the starting point, and if
a community doesn't want this, then that should be, you know,
a major factor, if not the deciding factor, because this
is really the rub I mean, we've got a lot
of urban areas, industrial areas that are vacant, but there's
there's a lot of issues that go on with those

(03:37):
because you know, there could be contaminated sites and all
of that. And so what these developers and the wet
administration is saying is, well, let's let's take up farmland.
Let's put these in rural areas one, because if the
land is cheap, they you know, as we heard from
Chuck Balen, they need jobs in you know, like they

(03:59):
said go for the Goshen Project. And so, but then
you're creating the situation where people who live in the
rural areas say, we like our rural area. We don't
want five hundred, five hundred and seventy five acre you know,
plant like this. And so then you've got that. That's
so that's the friction. But then on top of that,

(04:22):
like you said, what is this going to do to
energy rates? What is this going to do to water usage?
All of those sorts of things. And there was we
we're going to have a story today. Abdual l said,
who's running for US Senate put out a video which
I thought was very interesting, and that was he was

(04:42):
making the argument probably slightly different than I would make,
but he was saying the Whitmer administration passed these green
energy mandates. Well, if energy demand increases by twenty five percent,
then the green energy mandates are are void. Well his

(05:02):
point was, if we have all these data centers and
the usage demand goes up, then is that going to
undermine the green energy mandates? And I thought to myself,
Gretchen Whitmer has to know that these mandates are not there.
They're not going to be able to chew up enough
farmland in order to get the windmills and the solar

(05:25):
of you know, the solar plants and all of that.
So maybe she's using these data centers as a way
to undermine her own mandates. Yeah, how dare you?

Speaker 1 (05:40):
All of it just saves, it just saves so and
I look at this a little bit off topic, but
we were talking about the climate stuff yesterday and they
got a big climate conference going on in Brazil. They've
all taken private jets there and the latest story, just
to show you how much of a mess all of
this is, the latest story is that they had to

(06:00):
a new road through the rainforest to get these people
into the conference. And I'm thinking, wait a minute, are
we saving the planet or not? Here? And I think
the obvious is that they're interested in green energy, all right,
but the green is a dollar size. That's what we're watch.

(06:21):
Speaking of which, another story. Rep. Steve Kara and we
talked a little bit about this last week to both
the folks in the Senate and the House coming together
pushing to abolish the MTDC. That's the company that makes
all of this possible. By the way, if you want
to find out more, you get it at the Midwestern
Dot News. Kyle, thank you for taking the time. I know,

(06:42):
I just realized I've kept you pass your time. I apologize.
You can hold it against me later I will try
to make it up to you, my friend. All right,
have a great day. There you go. Folks, you can
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those updates on these stories and more. Got so much

(07:04):
to get to today, and then you know, I see
Kyle Messag said, hey man, will you come on and
talk about all of this stuff. We want to get
an update, and he said yes, but I got to
be off by nine fifteen, and here I am. I've
held him over five minutes and I appol I just
realized it. So there you have it. He was gracious
enough to come on as he always does, to give
us those updates. Thank you sir for doing that, and uh,

(07:27):
and there you have it. But it's important, these stories
are so important. We want to make sure you're up
to speed. I know he does too,