Benton Township AI Data Center (Yore Avenue, near Lake Michigan College)
Undisclosed developer · Benton Charter Township, MI · United States
Facility record
- Lifecycle
- ProposedSource-reported lifecycle
- Location precision
- approximate
- Address as listed
- Yore Avenue
- Coordinates
- 42.0952439, -86.388123
- Serving utility, source-reported
- Not established
- Operational capacity, source-reported
- Not published
- Planned capacity, source-reported
- Not published
- Source record updated
- 2026-10-07
Source-reported capacity; not metered consumption. Review underlying documents and notes. Planned capacity may include future phases and is not added to operational capacity here. The source may use facility, grid-feed or IT capacity definitions; consult the linked documents.
Coordinate precision is a source label, not an independent parcel survey. A marker does not confirm utility territory or establish an effect on residential bills.
Reported lifecycle history
No dated operational history is established in this record. Publication, discovery and source-update dates are not opening dates.
Source notes
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 as of October 2026 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 an investment figure. The pin is a point on Yore Avenue near the college (OSM), not a parcel.
Sources and provenance
- $3 billion A.I. data center potentially heading to Michiana · source retrieved 2026-10-07
- Benton Harbor (Proposed) data center listing · source retrieved 2026-10-07
Power Wars capture: 2026-11-02. Compute Atlas, CC BY 4.0. Entries are not independently verified by Power Wars unless stated.