Google and developer Panattoni want to build a 1 gigawatt data center called Project Cannoli on about 230 acres between Haggerty Road and I-275 near I-94 in Van Buren Township. The township board approved the project 5 to 2 in February 2026, but it still needs sign off from state utility regulators on its DTE Energy power contract and from the Great Lakes Water Authority on its 2 to 3 million gallons a day of water use. More than 1,300 residents have signed a petition raising concerns about wetlands, water use, and utility rates.
Data centers in Wayne County
We track 7 projects inside Wayne County and 6 more within 25 miles of it. For a distance-specific answer, check your own address.
In Wayne County
Raeden and Cal Realty, a Ferragon Corp company, want to convert an existing building at 27800 West Jefferson Avenue in Gibraltar, on the old McLouth Steel industrial site, into a 100 megawatt AI data center. Gibraltar's City Council passed a one year moratorium on data centers in March 2026 after the company filed its site plan application, and in August 2026 the developers sued the city in federal court, arguing the moratorium unfairly blocks a review they are entitled to under existing rules. The lawsuit is pending.
Comcast Comcast
An operating Comcast data center site in Wayne County, MI, mapped in OpenStreetMap and the IM3 Open Source Data Center Atlas. About 1,000 square feet of building is mapped.
Quicken Loans data center Quicken Loans
An operating Quicken Loans data center site in Wayne County, MI, mapped in OpenStreetMap and the IM3 Open Source Data Center Atlas. About 46,000 square feet of building is mapped.
US Signal data center US Signal
An operating US Signal data center site in Wayne County, MI, mapped in OpenStreetMap and the IM3 Open Source Data Center Atlas. About 25,000 square feet of building is mapped.
Verizon Wireless data center Verizon Wireless
An operating Verizon Wireless data center site in Wayne County, MI, mapped in OpenStreetMap and the IM3 Open Source Data Center Atlas. About 25,000 square feet of building is mapped.
Solstice Data Center (Allen Park) Solstice Data
A company called Solstice Data proposed a 26 megawatt data center near homes and a high school in Allen Park, a Detroit suburb. After the city's planning commission postponed a vote three times over incomplete traffic, sound, and engineering studies, it rejected the site plan 7 to 2 in June 2026. City officials are also weighing their own six month moratorium to write clearer rules before the next proposal arrives.
Within 25 miles of Wayne County
EdgeConneX Detroit DET01 EdgeConneX
Metrobloks Southfield Data Center Metrobloks
University of Michigan / Los Alamos Computing Center (Ypsilanti Township) University of Michigan
"Project Cherry Blossom" Data Center (Cloverleaf, Frenchtown Township) Cloverleaf Infrastructure
Wixom Industrial One Data Center Wixom Industrial One LLC (Sansone Group)
Power bills in Wayne County
Most of the county is served by DTE Electric.
DTE Electric is asking the commission for a 9.7% residential increase (2027 electric rate case (docket U-22046)). On a $160 monthly bill that is about $13 to $18 a month. 2026 electric distribution rate case (docket U-21860) raised residential rates 4.1% from March 2026: about $6 to $8 a month on a $160 bill. The order is meant to keep this one data center's power costs off the bills of regular DTE residential customers, but critics argue the fast, largely ex parte approval process did not fully test that promise.
DTE Electric filed a new rate case in 2026 asking for a 474.3 million dollar increase, about 9.7 percent more from residential customers, for a period starting March 2027. DTE separately offered to pause future rate hike requests for two years if this case gets a constructive outcome and its Saline Township data center opens on time, an offer Attorney General Dana Nessel called a ransom note that ties ordinary ratepayer relief to data center approvals. On August 28, 2026 Nessel filed testimony recommending the commission cut the increase to about 134.5 million dollars, roughly 2 percent, and require data centers to be billed as a separate rate class that covers their own added grid costs; the case remains pending with no decision yet.
Every Michigan rate case in dollars a month, with hearing dates: willmybillgoup.com, our rate case tracker.
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