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Reported geography
Source-reported location for Howell Township Hyperscale Data Center.
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Source row snapshot
- Operator as published
- Stantec Consulting Michigan / Randee LLC
- Address and locality
- Grand River Avenue, north of I-96 · Howell · Livingston County · Michigan
- Official metro area
- Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI
- Source-reported status
- cancelled
- Provider facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Not stated
- Source freshness
- 9 September 2026
- Location precision
- approximate
- Compute Atlas confidence label
- reported (provider's classification; not a DataCenterData check)
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-001361
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
- 1,077 acres (source-reported; parcel boundary not established)
- Announced investment
- $1 billion
- Community response
- Provider label: opposed
Provider notes
Community. The Howell Township Planning Commission voted against recommending the rezoning after a seven-hour meeting on 2025-09-23; the Livingston County Planning Commission voted against the project on 2025-11-19; the township board passed a six-month data-center moratorium on 2025-11-20. A grassroots residents' group organised specifically to stop the rezoning of the 1,077 acres on both sides of Grand River Avenue, citing energy, water, environmental and procedural concerns.
What the source record says
1,077 acres of largely agricultural land north of I-96 in Howell Township. Status 'cancelled' reflects the WITHDRAWN application, not confirmed abandonment — the source explicitly reports the developers may resubmit after the moratorium. END USER: Planet Detroit does NOT name the end user; the Gander Newsroom tracker labels the project 'Meta-linked developers' and other coverage has reported Meta as the hyperscaler behind it, but no source fetched in this run confirms Meta, so the operator field records only the named applicants (Stantec Consulting Michigan Inc. and Randee LLC). The landowner is the Van Gilder family. CONFIRMED ABSENCES: no megawatt capacity, water figure, or job count is stated in either source. Coordinates are Nominatim's match for Grand River Avenue in Howell Township, the road the source names as bisecting the site; the parcel boundary 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
- 2025-09 · source-reported proposed
Planning commission voted against recommending the conditional rezoning.
- 2025-12 · source-reported cancelled
Applicants withdrew the conditional rezoning request on 2025-12-08, saying they would honour the township's moratorium. Township officials indicated the developers may resubmit once the moratorium ends.
Sources and attribution
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- Data center developers hit pause on $1 billion Howell Township proposal: 'The right thing to do now' · 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 stantec-randee-howell-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-001361
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
- Grand River Avenue, north of I-96, Howell, MI · Livingston (Approximate location)
Roles
- Operator: Stantec Consulting Michigan / Randee LLC
Operator label as published by the provider; no parent company is inferred.
Lifecycle
- Source-stated status: source-reported cancelled
Provider status label; not a DataCenterData finding that the facility is operating.
- Status history: 2025-09 · source-reported proposed
Status history supplied by the source.
- Status history: 2025-12 · source-reported cancelled
Status history supplied by the source.
Area, acreage and buildings
- Land area: 1,077 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: opposed
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: 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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