Switch Pyramid Campus
Switch · Gaines Township, MI · United States
Facility record
- Lifecycle
- OperationalSource-reported lifecycle
- Location precision
- approximate
- Address as listed
- 6100 East Paris Avenue SE
- Coordinates
- 42.823, -85.64
- Serving utility, source-reported
- Consumers Energy
- Operational capacity, source-reported
- 225 MW
- Planned capacity, source-reported
- 320 MW
- 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
- Operational
Switch acquires 7-story Steelcase Pyramid building in Gaines Township, Kent County for $22.2M; Phase 1 delivers 225,000 sq ft white space
- Under construction
Phase 2 begins: 312,000 sq ft second building
- Under construction
Phase 2 completed spring 2025; Phase 3 third building announced; construction expected to start 'sooner rather than later'; investment 'several hundred million dollars'
Underlying source
Source notes
Steelcase Pyramid campus, Gaines Township, Kent County MI (south of Grand Rapids; not the city of Wyoming, which is a separate municipality ~5 km north). Total campus target: 1.8M sq ft, 320 MW, ~$5B investment across all phases. Phase 1 (225,000 sq ft white space) and Phase 2 (312,000 sq ft) operational; Phase 3 in planning/early construction as of 2025. Michigan's largest data center by capacity. Coordinates are approximate Pyramid campus location on East Paris Ave, Gaines Township. The campus itself has been open and serving customers since 2017, with buildings added incrementally. Data Center Dynamics reported in November 2024 that Switch was close to completing the second building and planning a third, with construction expected to start "sooner rather than later"; as of October 2026, none of the cited sources shows the third building under construction. As of September 2026, no cooling or water source could be retrieved; switch.com/pyramid renders its specs via JavaScript and returned only a headline.
100% renewable — Switch was Consumers Energy's first large-business renewable customer and negotiated a dedicated new wind project; an on-site substation provides grid interconnection (not generation). The campus is designed for up to 320 MW.
Sources and provenance
- Switch plans second expansion of pyramid data center campus in Grand Rapids, Michigan · source retrieved 2026-07-06
- Grand Rapids Data Center - Switch · source retrieved 2026-09-21
- Switch GRAND RAPIDS Now Open — Switch · source retrieved 2026-07-06
- Data centers create few jobs; Michigan wants to give them big tax breaks — Bridge Michigan · source retrieved 2026-07-06
- Has Switch Broken Its Transformational Promise from 2015? — Governing · source retrieved 2026-07-06
- Switch Grand Rapids (The Pyramid Campus) — Baxtel · source retrieved 2026-07-06
- Site Selection Magazine — Pyramid Power · source retrieved 2026-07-25
- Switch Leads Consumers Energy's Program To Bring 100% Renewable Energy to Michigan Businesses · source retrieved 2026-09-09
- Cloud and Colocation — Michigan data centers (Switch Grand Rapids Pyramid Data Center Campus, 6100 East Paris Avenue SE, Caledonia) · source retrieved 2026-09-21
Power Wars capture: 2026-11-02. Compute Atlas, CC BY 4.0. Entries are not independently verified by Power Wars unless stated.