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Reported geography
Source-reported location for Gibraltar Data Center (former McLouth Steel site).
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Source row snapshot
- Operator as published
- Raeden (with Cal Realty / Ferragon Corp.)
- Address and locality
- 27800 W. Jefferson Avenue · Gibraltar · Wayne County · Michigan
- Official metro area
- Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI
- Source-reported status
- proposed
- Provider facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Planned: 100 MW (source-reported; boundary not independently verified; MW measure not stated by provider)
- Source freshness
- 21 September 2026
- Location precision
- approximate
- Compute Atlas confidence label
- reported (provider's classification; not a DataCenterData check)
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-001242
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.
- Community response
- Provider label: litigation
Provider notes
Community. Gibraltar City Council passed a one-year data-center moratorium on 2026-03-09, after Raeden had already submitted its application. Raeden and Cal Realty sued the city on 2026-08-17 in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan (Judge Robert White), alleging the moratorium unfairly singles out their application and that an application submitted in good faith is entitled to review under the pre-moratorium ordinance. …
What the source record says
100 MW proposal on the former McLouth Steel plant site (operated from the 1950s to 1996, now a steel processing site) at 27800 W. Jefferson Ave., with an adjacent Superfund property at 28000 W. Jefferson. Status remains 'proposed', not 'cancelled': the application is blocked by the moratorium and is the subject of active litigation, not a denial. CONFIRMED ABSENCES: no acreage, investment figure, water figure, or job count is stated in either source. The '80,000 households' comparison is the source's characterisation of the 100 MW draw, not an additional measured figure. Coordinates are the US Census geocoder's match for the street address named in the source; the parcel is not confirmed.
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
- 2026-02 · source-reported proposed
Application submitted to the city; the city asked for additional detail.
- 2026-03 · source-reported proposed
City council passed a one-year data-center moratorium on 2026-03-09, halting consideration.
- 2026-08 · source-reported proposed
Developers filed suit on 2026-08-17 seeking a declaration that the moratorium is invalid and an order compelling the city to approve the plans.
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.
- Gibraltar faces data center developer lawsuit after city passes moratorium · 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 raeden-gibraltar-mclouth-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-001242
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
- 27800 W. Jefferson Avenue, Gibraltar, MI · Wayne (Approximate location)
Roles
- Operator: Raeden (with Cal Realty / Ferragon Corp.)
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.
- Status history: 2026-02 · source-reported proposed
Status history supplied by the source.
- Status history: 2026-03 · source-reported proposed
Status history supplied by the source.
- Status history: 2026-08 · source-reported proposed
Status history supplied by the source.
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.
Permits, incentives, jobs and proceedings
- Community response: Provider label: litigation
Compute Atlas characterization, not a DataCenterData assessment.
Sources, dates, limitations and corrections
- Provider update date: 2026-09-21
Provider update date is not a DataCenterData verification date.
Not yet recorded here: Area, acreage and buildings · 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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