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Reported geography
Source-reported location for Oakland University Campus Computing Facility.
Approximate source coordinates; this is not a parcel claim. Nearby source points are combined into one accessible target that opens this exact map scope. View these exact rows on the interactive map →
Source row snapshot
- Operator as published
- Fairmount Properties (with Oakland University)
- Address and locality
- Auburn Hills · Oakland County · Michigan
- Official metro area
- Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI
- Source-reported status
- proposed
- Provider facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Planned: 26 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-001084
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
- DTE Energy
- Power source
- Grid
- Cooling
- Not established
- Land area
- 15 acres (source-reported; parcel boundary not established)
- Announced jobs
- 30 permanent
- Community response
- Provider label: mixed
Provider notes
Energy. Planned to draw on existing, unutilized capacity at the on-campus DTE substation.
Water. University states a cooling system that minimizes water consumption, with use anticipated to be comparable to a standard campus office building; the technology is not named.
Community. Trustees approved 7-0-1, but some faculty and students remain opposed over environmental impact and the adjacent Native American heritage site.
What the source record says
Proposed shared university/industry colocation facility on OU's campus (Auburn Hills/Rochester border); site shifted from Parking Lot 35 to Parking Lot 37 to increase distance from a campus hall, a nature preserve, and a Native American heritage site. Cleveland-based Fairmount Properties funds construction, operations, and eventual decommissioning; OU pays nothing and gains an 8x expansion of its own computing capacity. Board of Trustees voted 7-0-1 to proceed into due diligence, design, and construction phases (June 2026); published timeline has due diligence running Oct 2026-June 2027, design July 2027-Fall 2028. Coordinates are an approximate campus-area estimate, not parcel-geocoded. Status re-check, NO change: the only 2026 milestone on the university's own timeline is a Board of Trustees authorization to proceed into due diligence and design (June 2026, already before the record's 2026-08-08 basis). A governing-board authorization is not a municipal permit and no construction start is claimed, so the record stays 'proposed'.
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.
- Data Infrastructure Project - Oakland University · Oakland University
- The Oakland Post — June 2026 BOT: trustees advance data center (20–26 MW; Lot 37; Fairmount Properties with DTE; closed-loop water cooling; 7-0-1 vote 2026-06-26) · The Oakland Post
- WDIV — Oakland University moves forward with AI data center project (~15 acres at Parking Lot 37; due diligence from Oct 2026) · WDIV ClickOnDetroit
- 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 oakland-university-computing-auburn-hills-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-001084
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
- Auburn Hills, MI · Oakland (Approximate location)
Roles
- Operator: Fairmount Properties (with Oakland University)
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: 15 acres (source-reported; parcel boundary not established)
Power capacity
- Reported capacity: Planned: 26 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.
- Electric utility: DTE 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
- Announced jobs: 30 permanent
Announced figures; whether they cover 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: 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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