Oakland University Campus Computing Facility
Fairmount Properties (with Oakland University) · Auburn Hills, MI · United States
Facility record
- Lifecycle
- ProposedSource-reported lifecycle
- Location precision
- approximate
- Address as listed
- Not published
- Coordinates
- 42.675, -83.215
- Serving utility, source-reported
- DTE Energy
- Operational capacity, source-reported
- Not published
- Planned capacity, source-reported
- 26 MW
- 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
Proposed shared university/industry colocation facility on OU's campus (Auburn Hills/Rochester border); site shifted from Parking Lot 35 to Parking Lot 37 to increase distance from a campus hall, a nature preserve, and a Native American heritage site. Cleveland-based Fairmount Properties funds construction, operations, and eventual decommissioning; OU pays nothing and gains an 8x expansion of its own computing capacity. Board of Trustees voted 7-0-1 to proceed into due diligence, design, and construction phases (June 2026); published timeline has due diligence running Oct 2026-June 2027, design July 2027-Fall 2028. Coordinates are an approximate campus-area estimate, not parcel-geocoded. Status as of September 2026, no change: the only 2026 milestone on the university's own timeline is a Board of Trustees authorization to proceed into due diligence and design (June 2026, already before the record's 2026-08-08 basis). A governing-board authorization is not a municipal permit and no construction start is claimed, so the record stays listed as proposed.
Planned to draw on existing, unutilized capacity at the on-campus DTE substation.
Sources and provenance
- Data Infrastructure Project - Oakland University · source retrieved 2026-09-09
- The Oakland Post — June 2026 BOT: trustees advance data center (20–26 MW; Lot 37; Fairmount Properties with DTE; closed-loop water cooling; 7-0-1 vote 2026-06-26) · source retrieved 2026-09-21
- WDIV — Oakland University moves forward with AI data center project (~15 acres at Parking Lot 37; due diligence from Oct 2026) · source retrieved 2026-09-21
- 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.