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Reported geography
Source-reported location for Project Cannoli.
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Source row snapshot
- Operator as published
- Address and locality
- Van Buren Township · Wayne County · Michigan
- Official metro area
- Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI
- Source-reported status
- proposed
- Provider facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Planned: 1,000 MW (source-reported; boundary not independently verified; MW measure not stated by provider)
- Source freshness
- 7 October 2026
- Location precision
- approximate (provider label: exact; the provider's own note describes an approximate location)
- Compute Atlas confidence label
- confirmed (provider's classification; not a DataCenterData check)
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-001157
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
- Mixed
- Cooling
- Not established
- Land area
- 282 acres (source-reported; parcel boundary not established)
- Community response
- Provider label: contested
- AI-use label (provider)
- likely
Incentives reported by the source
Whether each incentive was approved, awarded or received is not established.
- Local tax abatement approved by Van Buren Township · Charter Township of Van Buren, Michigan · 2026 · $125 million (as stated) Open cited source →
- Wayne County tax exemption (County Commission overrode the executive's veto) · Wayne County, MI · 2026 · $125 million (as stated) Open cited source →
Provider notes
Energy. ~1GW need per a DTE utility deal (450MW storage + 1.6GW renewables). $125M in local tax reduction in exchange for $15.4M developer-funded infrastructure + 51 jobs.
Water. Reported to potentially consume up to 3.6 million gallons of water daily.
Community. Planning commission gave preliminary approval (Feb 2026) for a substation/switching station; full Board of Trustees approval still pending. 1,900+ residents signed a petition opposing the project.
What the source record says
Google confirmed evaluating the site. Coordinates are approximate. Developer: Panattoni Development Co. Status re-check, NO change: only PRELIMINARY site plan approval has been granted (February 2026, already before the record's 2026-08-08 basis). The final site plan vote is still pending, so the record correctly remains '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.
- Van Buren Township OKs Google data center substation · Planet Detroit
- HIFLD Electric Retail Service Territories (ORNL/DOE-CESER, 2023-08 vintage) · Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) / HIFLD
- Van Buren Township — Data Center FAQ · Charter Township of Van Buren, Michigan
- Van Buren Township officials to consider final site plan for Google data center · Detroit Free Press via Yahoo News
- Google, DTE Van Buren data center contracts: 20-year special contracts before the MPSC, decision requested by September 10, 2026 · Planet Detroit
- Van Buren Township — Data Center Project page (1.0 GW maximum facility load; load begins Dec 2027, maximum Dec 2028; development agreement May 20, 2026) · Van Buren Charter Township
- Planet Detroit — Van Buren Township advances 1 GW 'Project Cannoli' (282 acres, 800,000 sq ft, 2–3.6M gallons/day, two air-cooled and one water-cooled building, 156 diesel backup generators) · Planet Detroit
- Planet Detroit — Google, DTE plan 1 gigawatt Michigan data center (2.7 GW new resources: 1.6 GW renewables, 450 MW storage; MPSC contested case filed 2026-03-17) · Planet Detroit
- Michigan regulators OK DTE contracts for Google data center · Michigan Public
- Michigan regulators OK DTE contracts for Google data center · Planet Detroit
- 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 project-cannoli-van-buren-township-wayne-county-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.
Operator’s own listing
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- Name as listed
- Van Buren Township
- Address as published
- Van Buren Township, MI
Lifecycle status is not published for this listing.
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Recorded information
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Licensed directory listing dcd-dir-001157
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.
- AI-use label (provider): likely
Compute Atlas classification, not a DataCenterData finding.
Location and precision
- Van Buren Township, MI · Wayne (Approximate location)
Roles
- Operator: Google
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: 282 acres (source-reported; parcel boundary not established)
Power capacity
- Reported capacity: Planned: 1,000 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: Mixed
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.
- Incentive reported by the source: Local tax abatement approved by Van Buren Township · Charter Township of Van Buren, Michigan · 2026 · $125 million (as stated)
Whether the incentive was approved, awarded or received is not established.
- Incentive reported by the source: Wayne County tax exemption (County Commission overrode the executive's veto) · Wayne County, MI · 2026 · $125 million (as stated)
Whether the incentive was approved, awarded or received is not established.
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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