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Ancient Infrastructure

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What caused yesterday's blackout? Most Detroit homes and business slurp electricity from the normal DTE grid, but many important public buildings—the DIA, schools, etc—are stuck on an ancient, city-owned grid that hasn't seen significant investment in 40 years. That grid is now being absorbed by DTE, which plans to spend $200M repairing it. [Local 4]