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Reported geography
Source-reported location for Thor Equities Augusta Township Data Center (Form8tion).
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Source row snapshot
- Operator as published
- Thor Equities
- Address and locality
- Augusta Township · Washtenaw County · Michigan
- Official metro area
- Ann Arbor, MI
- Source-reported status
- cancelled
- Provider facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Not stated
- Source freshness
- 9 September 2026
- Location precision
- approximate (provider label: exact; the provider's own note describes an approximate location)
- Compute Atlas confidence label
- reported (provider's classification; not a DataCenterData check)
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-001449
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
- Land area
- 810 acres (source-reported; parcel boundary not established)
- Announced investment
- $1 billion
- Community response
- Provider label: opposed
- AI-use label (provider)
- likely
- Announced
- 2024
Provider notes
Community. Opposition ran the full course: the Planning Commission recommended denial 5-1 (2025-06), the Board of Trustees approved the rezoning anyway (2025-07), residents gathered 957 signatures to force a referendum (2025-08), and the rezoning was overturned at the ballot on 2026-08-04 by roughly 90% of voters. A recall effort against the township board followed.
What the source record says
Site north of Milan-Oakville Road, east of Hitchingham Road, Augusta Township, Washtenaw County MI (between Ann Arbor and Monroe). No end user announced; planners cited Google and Microsoft as typical users of this facility type. Form8tion is Thor's digital infrastructure arm (founded March 2023). Capacity not disclosed; at least five large buildings planned. Voter referendum outcome will determine project viability. Coordinates are approximate Augusta Township centroid. SOURCE CONFLICT RESOLVED 2026-08-08: the earlier "rejected by voters" claim in an article predating the election was a pre-election piece describing the UPCOMING vote — the dates now reconcile because the referendum has since been held. Augusta Township voters overturned the 522-acre rezoning on 2026-08-04 (about 90% to overturn), so the parcels revert to agricultural residential. Recorded as "cancelled" because the project's enabling rezoning is gone; note that Thor Equities has NOT publicly withdrawn, and the results were unofficial as of 2026-08-05 — revisit if the developer re-applies or the count is certified differently. Status re-check, NO change: the record's 'cancelled' status dated 2026-08-04 corresponds to the Aug. 4 veto referendum on the 522-acre rezoning, and nothing found indicates a revival, appeal or re-rezoning since. CAVEAT: I could not fetch a page carrying the certified vote totals - the Ballotpedia result page returned empty content - so this confirms the mechanism and date, not the tally. Worth one more check before the record is treated as settled.
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
- 2024 · source-reported proposed
Thor Equities (via Form8tion / JDS Equities II LLC) acquires 810 acres in Augusta Township; seeks rezoning of 522 acres from agricultural/residential to General Industrial
- 2025-06 · source-reported proposed
Augusta Township Planning Commission recommends denial 5-1, citing inconsistency with land-use plans
- 2025-07 · source-reported proposed
Augusta Township Board of Trustees unanimously approves rezoning of 522 acres despite Planning Commission denial
- 2025-08 · source-reported proposed
Residents collect 957 signatures for ballot initiative (threshold was 561); question set for 2026 ballot (May or August primary election) to overturn rezoning
- 2026-08-04 · source-reported cancelled
Augusta Township voters overturned the rezoning at the August primary — about 90% voted to overturn — returning the seven parcels to agricultural residential and removing the zoning the project depended on. Results were still unofficial as of 2026-08-05.
Sources and attribution
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- Local officials recommend denial of Thor Equities data center in Michigan · Data Center Dynamics
- Can 957 signatures halt a $1 billion data center in Augusta Township? · Planet Detroit
- Tiny Michigan town hopes to stop data center with ballot initiative · Bridge Michigan
- HIFLD Electric Retail Service Territories (ORNL/DOE-CESER, 2023-08 vintage) · Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) / HIFLD
- Augusta Township data center battle reaches the ballot — 522 acres, agricultural residential to general industrial, vote set for 2026-08-04 · Planet Detroit
- Augusta Township voters overturn data center rezoning — “about 90% of voters chose to overturn” · WEMU-FM
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.34.1, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID thor-equities-augusta-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-001449
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
- Augusta Township, MI · Washtenaw (Approximate location)
Roles
- Operator: Thor Equities
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.
- Announced: 2024
Provider-reported announcement date.
- Status history: 2024 · source-reported proposed
Status history supplied by the source.
- Status history: 2025-06 · source-reported proposed
Status history supplied by the source.
- Status history: 2025-07 · source-reported proposed
Status history supplied by the source.
- Status history: 2025-08 · source-reported proposed
Status history supplied by the source.
- Status history: 2026-08-04 · source-reported cancelled
Status history supplied by the source.
Area, acreage and buildings
- Land area: 810 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.
- Electric utility: DTE Energy
Utility as named by the provider.
- Power source: Grid
Provider label.
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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