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Reported geography
Source-reported location for Project Flex.
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Source row snapshot
- Operator as published
- Verrus (Sidewalk Infrastructure Partners)
- Address and locality
- Lyon Township · Oakland County · Michigan
- Official metro area
- Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI
- Source-reported status
- proposed
- 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-001549
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
- Cooling
- Closed-loop
- Land area
- 180 acres (source-reported; parcel boundary not established)
- Announced jobs
- 210 permanent
- Community response
- Provider label: contested
- AI-use label (provider)
- likely
Provider notes
Energy. Grid power via a new DTE Energy electrical substation is the defining arrangement.
Water. Developer states closed-loop cooling using approximately 99% less water than legacy designs, and total site use of less than 12 million gallons per year for building, cooling and landscaping combined.
Community. Developer (via counsel) threatened injunctions/damages after the township denied a stormwater easement; a $10M community-benefits offer was floated July 2026.
What the source record says
6 buildings, 1.8M sq ft. Anthropic (maker of Claude) reported as the intended end-user tenant, not confirmed directly by Anthropic. Conditional site plan approval since Sept 2025. Coordinates are approximate.
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.
- Anthropic reported as intended end user of Project Flex data center · Crain's Detroit Business
- HIFLD Electric Retail Service Territories (ORNL/DOE-CESER, 2023-08 vintage) · Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) / HIFLD
- 180-acre data center set to be built in Lyon Township, Michigan (DCD)
- Lyon Township 'may be revisiting' data center site plan: Residents pack meeting (Planet Detroit)
- Project Flex — FAQ · Verrus (Sidewalk Infrastructure Partners)
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.34.1, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID verrus-project-flex-lyon-township-oakland-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).
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Recorded information
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Licensed directory listing dcd-dir-001549
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
- Lyon Township, MI · Oakland (Approximate location)
Roles
- Operator: Verrus (Sidewalk Infrastructure Partners)
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: 180 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.
Cooling, water, PUE and WUE
- Cooling: Closed-loop
Provider label.
Permits, incentives, jobs and proceedings
- Announced jobs: 210 permanent
Announced figures; whether they cover one building, a campus or a multi-phase program is not established.
- Community response: Provider label: contested
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: 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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