Howell Township Hyperscale Data Center
Stantec Consulting Michigan / Randee LLC · Howell, MI · United States
Facility record
- Lifecycle
- CancelledSource-reported lifecycle
- Location precision
- approximate
- Address as listed
- Grand River Avenue, north of I-96
- Coordinates
- 42.6317633, -83.9932682
- Serving utility, source-reported
- Not established
- Operational capacity, source-reported
- Not published
- Planned capacity, source-reported
- Not published
- Source record updated
- 2026-09-09
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
- Proposed
Planning commission voted against recommending the conditional rezoning.
Underlying source - Cancelled
Applicants withdrew the conditional rezoning request on 2025-12-08, saying they would honour the township's moratorium. Township officials indicated the developers may resubmit once the moratorium ends.
Underlying source
Source notes
1,077 acres of largely agricultural land north of I-96 in Howell Township. The record's cancelled status reflects the withdrawn application, not confirmed abandonment — the source explicitly reports the developers may resubmit after the moratorium. The end user: Planet Detroit does not name the end user; the Gander Newsroom tracker labels the project 'Meta-linked developers' and other coverage has reported Meta as the hyperscaler behind it, but no cited source confirms Meta, so the operator is recorded as only the named applicants (Stantec Consulting Michigan Inc. and Randee LLC). The landowner is the Van Gilder family. No megawatt capacity, water figure, or job count is stated in either source. Coordinates are Nominatim's match for Grand River Avenue in Howell Township, the road the source names as bisecting the site; the parcel boundary is not confirmed.
Sources and provenance
- Data center developers hit pause on $1 billion Howell Township proposal: 'The right thing to do now' · source retrieved 2026-09-09
- How many AI data centers are planned in Michigan? We counted. · source retrieved 2026-09-09
Power Wars capture: 2026-11-02. Compute Atlas, CC BY 4.0. Entries are not independently verified by Power Wars unless stated.