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Reported geography
Source-reported location for Metrobloks Southfield Data Center.
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Source row snapshot
- Operator as published
- Metrobloks
- Address and locality
- Southfield · Oakland County · Michigan
- Official metro area
- Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI
- Source-reported status
- permitted
- Provider facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Planned: 100 MW (source-reported; boundary not independently verified; MW measure not stated by provider)
- Source freshness
- 7 October 2026
- Location precision
- approximate
- Compute Atlas confidence label
- confirmed (provider's classification; not a DataCenterData check)
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-000958
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.
- Cooling
- Closed-loop
- Land area
- 12.19 acres (source-reported; parcel boundary not established)
- Announced jobs
- 35 permanent
- Community response
- Provider label: contested
Provider notes
Water. Approved site plan describes a closed loop water system with no ground water usage.
Community. Majority of public speakers opposed at the Dec 16, 2025 council hearing ('too many unknowns' -- Council President Charles Hicks); approved anyway 5-2.
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- Provider energy note: Previously held pending provider-field review. The concern has not been resolved by an independent source review for this captured edition; the field remains withheld.
- Power source: Previously held pending provider-field review. The concern has not been resolved by an independent source review for this captured edition; the field remains withheld.
- Electric utility: Previously held pending provider-field review. The concern has not been resolved by an independent source review for this captured edition; the field remains withheld.
- Announced investment: Previously held pending provider-field review. The concern has not been resolved by an independent source review for this captured edition; the field remains withheld.
What the source record says
217,030-230,000 sq ft, two-story building on ~12.19 acres of vacant land along Inkster Road north of 11 Mile Road, Southfield's northwest corner. Los Angeles-based developer Metrobloks (already tracked elsewhere in MO/IN/FL) has not completed a data center build anywhere yet per reporting. City of Southfield's own statement explicitly says the facility is NOT intended as 'an artificial intelligence repository' -- omitting aiClassification here rather than defaulting to 'likely'. City Council approved the site plan 5-2 on Dec 16, 2025; the city notes 'Approval of the proposal does not remove City oversight' -- still subject to further permitting. A named IT-engineer public commenter said the real target may be closer to 150 MW by groundbreaking; unconfirmed beyond that public comment. Closed-loop cooling planned, city says 'minimal long-term water use.' Coordinates are an approximate Inkster/11 Mile intersection estimate, not parcel-geocoded.
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.
- City of Southfield Statement Regarding Proposed Data Center · City of Southfield, Michigan
- Southfield City Council greenlights divisive data center plan: 'Too many unknowns' · Planet Detroit
- Southfield City Council approves data center site plan · C & G Newspapers
- How many AI data centers are planned in Michigan? We counted. — "LA-based developer Metrobloks LLC has received site plan approval from the Southfield City Council for a 100-megawatt data center" · Gander Newsroom
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.34.1, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID metrobloks-southfield-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).
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Recorded information
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Licensed directory listing dcd-dir-000958
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
- Southfield, MI · Oakland (Approximate location)
Roles
- Operator: Metrobloks
Operator label as published by the provider; no parent company is inferred.
Lifecycle
- Source-stated status: source-reported permitted
Provider status label; not a DataCenterData finding that the facility is operating.
Area, acreage and buildings
- Land area: 12.19 acres (source-reported; parcel boundary not established)
Power capacity
- Reported capacity: Planned: 100 MW (source-reported; boundary not independently verified; MW measure not stated by provider)
Reproduced as the page prints it; not ranked or totaled; unknown is not zero.
Cooling, water, PUE and WUE
- Cooling: Closed-loop
Provider label.
Permits, incentives, jobs and proceedings
- Announced jobs: 35 permanent
Announced figures; whether they cover one building, a campus or a multi-phase program is not established.
- Community response: Provider label: contested
Compute Atlas characterization, not a DataCenterData assessment.
Sources, dates, limitations and corrections
- Provider update date: 2026-10-07
Provider update date is not a DataCenterData verification date.
Not yet recorded here: 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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