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Reported geography
Source-reported location for Microsoft Gaines Township Data Center.
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Source row snapshot
- Operator as published
- Microsoft
- Address and locality
- Gaines Township · Kent County · Michigan
- Official metro area
- Grand Rapids-Wyoming-Kentwood, MI
- Source-reported status
- proposed
- Provider facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Not stated
- Source freshness
- 9 September 2026
- Location precision
- approximate
- Compute Atlas confidence label
- confirmed (provider's classification; not a DataCenterData check)
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-000976
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.
- Electric utility
- Consumers Energy
- Power source
- Grid
- Cooling
- Not established
- Land area
- 316 acres (source-reported; parcel boundary not established)
- Community response
- Provider label: contested
Provider notes
Water. Microsoft's conditional-rezoning commitments state it will not withdraw groundwater at the site for cooling; the commitment does not identify the cooling technology itself.
What the source record says
Microsoft's SECOND data center site within Gaines Township -- distinct from the unrelated, already-operational Switch Pyramid Campus (also in Gaines Township, tracked separately as switch-pyramid-campus-grand-rapids-mi). Microsoft bought a ~300-316-acre former Steelcase parcel on/near Patterson Avenue for ~$45-45.3M in October 2024 and is seeking to rezone a 40.5-acre portion from large-scale PUD to light industrial; Gaines Charter Township Planning Commission held a public hearing Dec 18, 2025. Township Community Development Director, Dec 2025: no specific plans provided yet beyond general intent. No capacity or total project-investment figure disclosed as of this pass. Coordinates are an approximate Patterson Avenue / Gaines Township estimate (deliberately offset from the existing Switch record's East Paris Avenue coordinates), not parcel-geocoded. Confirmed absence, not a gap: Microsoft has committed in writing to seek no local property tax abatement from Gaines Charter Township, so the empty subsidies field reflects a sourced negative at the township level. State-level (MEDC/MSF) incentives were not checked by this source.
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.
- Microsoft seeks rezoning approval for new data center in Gaines Township · WWMT
- Gaines Township to consider rezoning for future Microsoft data center · WGVU News
- Gaines Township proposed data center: What to know before the April 15 public hearing · WWMT Newschannel 3
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.34.1, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID microsoft-gaines-township-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-000976
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
- Gaines Township, MI · Kent (Approximate location)
Roles
- Operator: Microsoft
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: 316 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.
- Electric utility: Consumers Energy
Utility as named by the provider.
- Power source: Grid
Provider label.
Cooling, water, PUE and WUE
- Cooling: Not established
Provider label: unknown.
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: 2026-09-09
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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