Data Center Construction in Michigan

Ypsilanti Township unanimously passed a 180-day moratorium on major electric utility infrastructure on August 18, targeting the $1.2B, 220,000-sqft hyperscale data center proposed by the University of Michigan and Los Alamos National Laboratories. The university recently selected a 144-acre site on Textile Road in the township. The moratorium directs local power authorities to study noise pollutio

Related Digital's $16B Stargate data center campus in Saline Township, MI is under construction after the developer sued to override a 4-1 township vote rejecting its rezoning request. The ~1,000-acre campus comprises three single-story buildings delivering 1.4 GW of power supplied by DTE Energy, purpose-built for Oracle as part of the Stargate AI infrastructure project with OpenAI. Related Digita

Raeden and Cal Realty filed a federal lawsuit on Aug. 17 against the City of Gibraltar over its one-year data center moratorium, alleging it unlawfully blocks review of a site plan application submitted before the March 9 moratorium vote. The proposed 100 MW inference data center would redevelop the former McLouth Steel property at 27800 W. Jefferson Ave., using an existing building and a closed-l