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Reported geography
Source-reported location for Buick City Data Center.
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Source row snapshot
- Operator as published
- Hillwood-Sterling
- Address and locality
- 902 East Leith Street · Flint · Genesee County · Michigan
- Official metro area
- Flint, MI
- Source-reported status
- proposed
- Provider facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Not stated
- Source freshness
- 10 September 2026
- Location precision
- approximate
- Compute Atlas confidence label
- reported (provider's classification; not a DataCenterData check)
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-000787
Reported details
Source-reported by Compute Atlas; not independently verified by DataCenterData. Provider wording is kept; long provider notes are shortened and marked …; unknown is not zero; none of these values is totaled, ranked or compared.
- Land area
- 200 acres (source-reported; parcel boundary not established)
- Community response
- Provider label: contested
Provider notes
Community. Flint City Council passed a one-year moratorium on data-center permitting, site plans and construction on June 8, 2026, explicitly while the city studies the issue; WNEM's coverage names the Buick site as one of several under discussion but does not itself name a developer or a filed application.
What the source record says
Address resolved from a WHOLLY DIFFERENT lane than last wave attempted (both Crain's Detroit and the direct EPA prospective-purchaser Federal Register notice 403'd/blocked every fetch this run, consistent with this repo's prior experience with Michigan sources). The address '902 East Leith Street, Flint, MI' for the broader former Buick City complex is independently confirmed by two fetched sources: Genesee County View's 2023-05-25 piece on Ashley Capital's adjacent 'Flint Commerce Center' redevelopment ('The site address provided in the article is: 902 E. Leith St. in Flint'), and EPA's own 2023-11-01 press release on the Flint Commerce Center LLC prospective-purchaser agreement for 'roughly 330 acres of the former Buick City manufacturing facility.' Leith Street is independently documented (via a non-cited Wikipedia cross-check, used only to sanity-check geography, not as a source) as the street that divides the ~413-acre Buick City site into northern and southern sections, and the chosen Leith Street road segment (of several OpenStreetMap-tagged segments) falls within the site's other documented boundary streets (E Pierson Rd to the north, N Saginaw St/Industrial to the west, E Hamilton Ave to the south, James P Cole Blvd to the east -- all geocoded this run to confirm the bounding box). This is the general Buick City site address, NOT a confirmed parcel boundary for Hillwood-Sterling's specific ~200-acre sub-parcel within it (Ashley Capital, not Hillwood-Sterling, is RACER Trust's direct purchaser of the larger site; Hillwood-Sterling's deal, per Gander Newsroom, is reported as a ~200-acre interest within the broader former Buick City footprint) -- precision 'approximate' reflects both the geocode-not-parcel caveat AND this sub-parcel uncertainty. CONFIDENCE RAISED from 'rumored' to 'reported': Gander Newsroom (updated 2026-09-03) names a specific developer ('Hillwood-Sterling, a joint venture backed by Dallas-based real estate developer Ross Perot Jr.') and a specific acreage under contract, which is more than an unsourced rumor, though it still falls short of a permit or filed site plan -- none exists yet because the moratorium blocks the city from accepting one. STATUS remains 'proposed': Gander Newsroom states 'it's still unclear who the end user would be for a potential Flint project -- or what size and investment it would involve,' and the moratorium (in effect since 2026-06-08) means 'no permit applications, site plans, or construction for data centers will be accepted or processed by the city of Flint' -- so no site-plan or rezoning application can exist yet by design, not by omission. CONFIRMED ABSENCES: no megawatt capacity, investment figure, or job count in any source fetched this run.
Any MW value is reproduced as source-reported context. Its measurement boundary is not established consistently enough for comparison. Unknown is not zero.
Status history supplied by the source
No status history was supplied in this edition.
Sources and attribution
These sources are listed for the whole row. Unless a figure links to its own source, the provider does not mark which one gave it, so a figure may not appear in every source.
- How many AI data centers are planned in Michigan? We counted. · Gander Newsroom
- Flint City Council to discuss data center moratorium · WNEM TV5
- Buick City redevelopment moves ahead with $300 million investment · Genesee County View
- EPA Reaches Agreement with Flint Commerce Center LLC Regarding Redevelopment of a Portion of the Former Buick City Site · U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.34.1, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID hillwood-sterling-buick-city-flint-mi. Filtered to data-center records in the 50 U.S. states; selected fields normalized for search and display; DataCenterData directory IDs added. Some locations in this layer are reported by the provider as derived from OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL, https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright) and Epoch AI (CC BY 4.0).
Compute Atlas 1.34.1 with retained prior rows and publication holds. This is a DataCenterData composite, not an unmodified publisher edition. This row uses the captured source from 1.34.1, source as of 2026-10-14T20:40:52.293Z.
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Recorded information
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Licensed directory listing dcd-dir-000787
Licensed directory row.
Provider notes and the source narrative are printed on this page and are not repeated here.
Identity and relationships
- Provider facility type: data center
Provider facility type.
Location and precision
- 902 East Leith Street, Flint, MI · Genesee (Approximate location)
Roles
- Operator: Hillwood-Sterling
Operator label as published by the provider; no parent company is inferred.
Lifecycle
- Source-stated status: source-reported proposed
Provider status label; not a DataCenterData finding that the facility is operating.
Area, acreage and buildings
- Land area: 200 acres (source-reported; parcel boundary not established)
Power capacity
- Reported capacity: Not stated
Reproduced as the page prints it; not ranked or totaled; unknown is not zero.
Permits, incentives, jobs and proceedings
- Community response: Provider label: contested
Compute Atlas characterization, not a DataCenterData assessment.
Sources, dates, limitations and corrections
- Provider update date: 2026-09-10
Provider update date is not a DataCenterData verification date.
Not yet recorded here: Cooling, water, PUE and WUE · Connectivity · Services · Certifications and design ratings · Rack density · Availability · Specification links and contact.
Licensed values: adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak under CC BY 4.0. Source-reported and not independently verified.
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