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Reported geography
Source-reported location for Microsoft Lowell Township Data Center.
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Source row snapshot
- Operator as published
- Microsoft
- Address and locality
- Lowell 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
- 7 October 2026
- Location precision
- approximate
- Compute Atlas confidence label
- reported (provider's classification; not a DataCenterData check)
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-000988
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
- 237 acres (source-reported; parcel boundary not established)
- Announced investment
- $1 billion
- Community response
- Provider label: mixed
Provider notes
Community. Two public open houses drew large, largely critical crowds; the township board itself voted against a moratorium and is drafting an ordinance rather than blocking the project outright.
What the source record says
Proposed ~$1B hyperscale campus at Covenant Business Park, Lowell Township, outside Grand Rapids. Originally filed under Franklin Lowell LLC / Franklin Partners (that application was withdrawn in Dec 2025 amid opposition); Microsoft has since publicly identified itself as the developer (named itself Jan 2026 per secondary reporting, not independently re-confirmed this session) and is pursuing a revamped proposal. Lowell Township's board rejected a proposed moratorium 2-5 and instead formed a committee to draft a data-center-specific ordinance -- i.e. the township itself stayed open to the project even as public reaction has been heavily negative at open houses. Only one independent outlet directly verified this session (WoodTV and Crain's Detroit coverage exist but returned 403 on fetch) -- kept at 'reported' rather than 'confirmed' pending a second direct source. Coordinates are an approximate Lowell Township estimate, not parcel-geocoded. Status re-check, NO change: the rezoning application has been neither approved nor denied - the planning commission took no decision and continued the matter to further meetings - so the record correctly stays 'proposed'. No megawatt, acreage, jobs or water figures were stated. Separately, secondary reporting says the City of Lowell suspended water/sewer negotiations with the township over the project; I could not confirm that from a fetchable page (WOODTV returned 403), so it is flagged as an unverified lead rather than recorded.
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.
- Why one Michigan township just rejected data centers, while another stays open to them · Michigan Public
- How many AI data centers are planned in Michigan? We counted. · Gander Newsroom
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.34.1, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID microsoft-lowell-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-000988
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
- Lowell 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: 237 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
- Announced investment: $1 billion
Announced figure; whether it covers one building, a campus or a multi-phase program is not established.
- Community response: Provider label: mixed
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: 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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