Crain’s Detroit Business
January 29, 2026
David Eggert
Michigan has an “enormous” opportunity to capitalize on the data center boom and cannot allow naysayers to deny it from getting a piece of the best economic development opportunity since the automobile’s invention, longtime business leader John Rakolta Jr. said Thursday.
The chairman of construction giant Walbridge, which builds data centers, made the case for them and urged others to do the same in remarks at the Detroit Regional Chamber‘s Detroit Policy Conference.