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Reported geography
Source-reported location for Switch Pyramid Campus.
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
- Switch
- Address and locality
- 6100 East Paris Avenue SE · Gaines Township · Kent County · Michigan
- Official metro area
- Grand Rapids-Wyoming-Kentwood, MI
- Source-reported status
- under construction
- Provider facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Not established; source review excludes the published figure
- Source freshness
- 21 September 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-001404
The operator page says the campus will have up to 237 MW upon completion, which conflicts with the stored planned 320 MW; the stored operational 225 MW is not stated on the operator page. The upstream row remains attributed below, but this value is not repeated as site capacity.
The underlying provider record is retained. These notes add source-attributed context and flag conflicts; any withheld value is explained separately. They do not certify current operation.
- status: Provider status: under construction. The operator announced the campus's first phase open on 2017-03-09; later phases may still be in construction.
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
- Consumers Energy
- Power source
- Wind
- Cooling
- Not established
- Land area
- 138 acres (source-reported; parcel boundary not established)
- Announced investment
- $5 billion
- Announced jobs
- 148 permanent
- Community response
- Provider label: supported
- AI-use label (provider)
- mixed use
- Announced
- 2022
Incentives reported by the source
Whether each incentive was approved, awarded or received is not established.
- Michigan data-center sales-and-use tax exemption (PA 251/252 of 2015, enacted for Switch; saved ~$2M in 2022) · Michigan · 2016 Open cited source →
- Michigan Strategic Fund Renaissance Zone — 15-year personal-property tax exemption (from 2016; ~$1.1M/year), tied to a 103-job pledge that was not met · Michigan / Gaines Township / Kent County · 2016 Open cited source →
Provider notes
Energy. 100% renewable — Switch was Consumers Energy's first large-business renewable customer and negotiated a dedicated new wind project; an on-site substation provides grid interconnection (not generation). The campus is designed for up to 320 MW.
Water. No facility-specific cooling type or water volume is disclosed; the City of Grand Rapids provides water and sewer service.
Community. The project repurposed the long-vacant, iconic Steelcase 'Pyramid' and is broadly welcomed locally, with the township receiving roughly $430K/year from Switch and its tenants. But it has drawn accountability friction: an initial 1,000-job vision became a 103-job commitment, of which only 26 were created by the 2021 deadline (about 148 by later reporting), and a dispute over school capital-debt millage reached the state legislature. An announced ~$400M construction budget contrasts with ~$150M reported as actually invested by 2018.
What the source record says
Steelcase Pyramid campus, Gaines Township, Kent County MI (south of Grand Rapids; NOT the city of Wyoming, which is a separate municipality ~5 km north). Total campus target: 1.8M sq ft, 320 MW, ~$5B investment across all phases. Phase 1 (225,000 sq ft white space) and Phase 2 (312,000 sq ft) operational; Phase 3 in planning/early construction as of 2025. Michigan's largest data center by capacity. Coordinates are approximate Pyramid campus location on East Paris Ave, Gaines Township. Status re-check, NO change proposed - but flagging a possible mislabel for a maintainer. This record has the oldest basis in the state (lastUpdated 2025-01) and sits at 'under_construction' while the campus itself has been open and serving customers since 2017, with buildings added incrementally. I did NOT propose 'operational' because the only opening evidence I could fetch predates the record's own 2025-01 basis, so the maintainer may have chosen 'under_construction' deliberately to track the ongoing second/third-building expansion. Deciding this needs a maintainer's intent, not more sources. No cooling or water source was fetchable; switch.com/pyramid renders its specs via JavaScript and returned only a headline.
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
- 2017 · source-reported operational
Switch acquires 7-story Steelcase Pyramid building in Gaines Township, Kent County for $22.2M; Phase 1 delivers 225,000 sq ft white space
- 2022 · source-reported under construction
Phase 2 begins: 312,000 sq ft second building
- 2025-01 · source-reported under construction
Phase 2 completed spring 2025; Phase 3 third building announced; construction expected to start 'sooner rather than later'; investment 'several hundred million dollars'
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.
- Switch plans second expansion of pyramid data center campus in Grand Rapids, Michigan · Data Center Dynamics
- Grand Rapids Data Center - Switch · Switch
- Switch GRAND RAPIDS Now Open — Switch · Switch
- Data centers create few jobs; Michigan wants to give them big tax breaks — Bridge Michigan · Bridge Michigan
- Has Switch Broken Its Transformational Promise from 2015? — Governing · Governing
- Switch Grand Rapids (The Pyramid Campus) — Baxtel · Baxtel
- Site Selection Magazine — Pyramid Power
- Switch Leads Consumers Energy's Program To Bring 100% Renewable Energy to Michigan Businesses · Switch
- Cloud and Colocation — Michigan data centers (Switch Grand Rapids Pyramid Data Center Campus, 6100 East Paris Avenue SE, Caledonia) · Cloud and Colocation
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.34.1, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID switch-pyramid-campus-grand-rapids-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.
That does not mean the row is wrong, and it does not mean no reviewed record exists for the same place. A link is added only when an identifier or source establishes the match.
Recorded information
What this page records, grouped by topic, with the source's units and qualifications. Company-reported values stay labeled as company-reported. Related listings are shown separately.
Licensed directory listing dcd-dir-001404
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): mixed use
Compute Atlas classification, not a DataCenterData finding.
Location and precision
- 6100 East Paris Avenue SE, Gaines Township, MI · Kent (Approximate location)
Roles
- Operator: Switch
Operator label as published by the provider; no parent company is inferred.
Lifecycle
- Source-stated status: source-reported under construction
Provider status label; not a DataCenterData finding that the facility is operating.
- Announced: 2022
Provider-reported announcement date.
- Status history: 2017 · source-reported operational
Status history supplied by the source.
- Status history: 2022 · source-reported under construction
Status history supplied by the source.
- Status history: 2025-01 · source-reported under construction
Status history supplied by the source.
Area, acreage and buildings
- Land area: 138 acres (source-reported; parcel boundary not established)
Power capacity
- Reported capacity: Not established; source review excludes the published figure
Reproduced as the page prints it; not ranked or totaled; unknown is not zero.
- Electric utility: Consumers Energy
Utility as named by the provider.
- Power source: Wind
Provider label.
Cooling, water, PUE and WUE
- Cooling: Not established
The provider reports water information but no cooling type.
Permits, incentives, jobs and proceedings
- Announced investment: $5 billion
Announced figure; whether it covers one building, a campus or a multi-phase program is not established.
- Announced jobs: 148 permanent
Announced figures; whether they cover one building, a campus or a multi-phase program is not established.
- Community response: Provider label: supported
Compute Atlas characterization, not a DataCenterData assessment.
- Incentive reported by the source: Michigan data-center sales-and-use tax exemption (PA 251/252 of 2015, enacted for Switch; saved ~$2M in 2022) · Michigan · 2016
Whether the incentive was approved, awarded or received is not established.
- Incentive reported by the source: Michigan Strategic Fund Renaissance Zone — 15-year personal-property tax exemption (from 2016; ~$1.1M/year), tied to a 103-job pledge that was not met · Michigan / Gaines Township / Kent County · 2016
Whether the incentive was approved, awarded or received is not established.
Sources, dates, limitations and corrections
- Provider update date: 2026-09-21
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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