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Buick City Data Center

Hillwood-Sterling · Flint, MI · United States

Facility record

Lifecycle
ProposedSource-reported lifecycle
Location precision
approximate
Address as listed
902 East Leith Street
Coordinates
43.043131, -83.6880801
Serving utility, source-reported
Not established
Operational capacity, source-reported
Not published
Planned capacity, source-reported
Not published
Source record updated
2026-09-10

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

The address '902 East Leith Street, Flint, MI' for the broader former Buick City complex is independently confirmed by two sources: Genesee County View's 2023-05-25 piece on Ashley Capital's adjacent 'Flint Commerce Center' redevelopment ('The site address provided in the article is: 902 E. Leith St. in Flint'), and EPA's own 2023-11-01 press release on the Flint Commerce Center LLC prospective-purchaser agreement for 'roughly 330 acres of the former Buick City manufacturing facility.' Leith Street is independently documented (via a non-cited Wikipedia cross-check, used only to sanity-check geography, not as a source) as the street that divides the ~413-acre Buick City site into northern and southern sections, and the chosen Leith Street road segment (of several OpenStreetMap-tagged segments) falls within the site's other documented boundary streets (E Pierson Rd to the north, N Saginaw St/Industrial to the west, E Hamilton Ave to the south, James P Cole Blvd to the east -- all geocoded to confirm the bounding box). This is the general Buick City site address, not a confirmed parcel boundary for Hillwood-Sterling's specific ~200-acre sub-parcel within it (Ashley Capital, not Hillwood-Sterling, is RACER Trust's direct purchaser of the larger site; Hillwood-Sterling's deal, per Gander Newsroom, is reported as a ~200-acre interest within the broader former Buick City footprint) -- the approximate pin reflects both the geocode-not-parcel caveat and this sub-parcel uncertainty. The record is marked reported, not rumored: Gander Newsroom (updated 2026-09-03) names a specific developer ('Hillwood-Sterling, a joint venture backed by Dallas-based real estate developer Ross Perot Jr.') and a specific acreage under contract, which is more than an unsourced rumor, though it still falls short of a permit or filed site plan -- as of September 2026, none exists yet because the moratorium blocks the city from accepting one. The record is listed as proposed: Gander Newsroom states 'it's still unclear who the end user would be for a potential Flint project -- or what size and investment it would involve,' and the moratorium (in effect since 2026-06-08) means 'no permit applications, site plans, or construction for data centers will be accepted or processed by the city of Flint' -- so, as of September 2026, no site-plan or rezoning application can exist yet by design, not by omission. No megawatt capacity, investment figure, or job count appears in any source consulted.

Sources and provenance

Power Wars capture: 2026-11-02. Compute Atlas, CC BY 4.0. Entries are not independently verified by Power Wars unless stated.

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