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Reported geography
Source-reported location for Benton Township AI Data Center (Yore Avenue, near Lake Michigan College).
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
- Undisclosed developer
- Address and locality
- Yore Avenue · Benton Charter Township · Berrien County · Michigan
- Official metro area
- Niles, MI
- Source-reported status
- proposed
- Provider facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Not stated
- Source freshness
- 7 October 2026
- Location precision
- approximate
- Compute Atlas confidence label
- reported (provider's classification; not a DataCenterData check)
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-001765
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
- 280 acres (source-reported; parcel boundary not established)
- Announced
- April 2024
What the source record says
An unnamed company considered a potential $3 billion AI data center on 280 acres on Yore Avenue near Lake Michigan College (ABC57, April 2024). Local officials cited power from the Cook Plant and Palisades and water for cooling. ABC57 reported that state tax-exemption legislation had to pass before the project could proceed. Baxtel lists it as 'land secured for future development' with the developer unknown. DCD later reported the plans had stalled, but that article could not be fetched, so the stall is not asserted from it. The $3B figure is a 'potential' value, so it is not recorded as investmentUsd. The pin is a point on Yore Avenue near the college (OSM), not a parcel.
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
- $3 billion A.I. data center potentially heading to Michiana · ABC57
- Benton Harbor (Proposed) data center listing · Baxtel
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.34.1+reviewed-2610e0556b3d, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID benton-township-yore-avenue-ai-data-center-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.
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Recorded information
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Licensed directory listing dcd-dir-001765
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
- Yore Avenue, Benton Charter Township, MI · Berrien (Approximate location)
Roles
- Operator: Undisclosed developer
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.
- Announced: April 2024
Provider-reported announcement date.
Area, acreage and buildings
- Land area: 280 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.
Sources, dates, limitations and corrections
- Provider update date: 2026-10-07
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 · Permits, incentives, jobs and proceedings.
Licensed values: adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak under CC BY 4.0. Source-reported and not independently verified.
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