Microsoft Lowell Township Data Center
Microsoft · Lowell Township, MI · United States
Facility record
- Lifecycle
- ProposedSource-reported lifecycle
- Location precision
- approximate
- Address as listed
- Not published
- Coordinates
- 42.93, -85.352
- Serving utility, source-reported
- Not established
- Operational capacity, source-reported
- Not published
- Planned capacity, source-reported
- Not published
- Source record updated
- 2026-10-22
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
Proposed ~$1B hyperscale campus at Covenant Business Park, Lowell Township, outside Grand Rapids. Originally filed under Franklin Lowell LLC / Franklin Partners (that application was withdrawn in Dec 2025 amid opposition); Microsoft has since publicly identified itself as the developer (named itself Jan 2026 per secondary reporting, not independently re-confirmed as of September 2026) and is pursuing a revamped proposal. Lowell Township's board rejected a proposed moratorium 2-5 and instead formed a committee to draft a data-center-specific ordinance -- i.e. the township itself stayed open to the project even as public reaction has been heavily negative at open houses. As of August 2026, only one independent outlet had been directly verified (WoodTV and Crain's Detroit coverage exist but could not be retrieved); Gander Newsroom's Michigan data-center directory (updated October 2026) now independently reports Microsoft's plan as well. Coordinates are an approximate Lowell Township estimate, not parcel-geocoded. As of September 2026, the rezoning application had been neither approved nor denied - the planning commission took no decision and continued the matter to further meetings - so the status remains proposed. Gander Newsroom gives roughly 237 acres at Covenant Business Park; as of October 2026, none of the cited sources states a megawatt, jobs or water figure. Separately, Gander Newsroom reports that the plan stalled in August 2026 when the Lowell City Council suspended negotiations with the township over water, sewer and development agreements.
Sources and provenance
- Why one Michigan township just rejected data centers, while another stays open to them · source retrieved 2026-08-08
- How many AI data centers are planned in Michigan? We counted. · 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.