Washtenaw County, MI

Augusta Township Data Center (Thor Equities)

Thor Equities. Denied. 100 MW.

New York developer Thor Equities sought to build a 1 billion dollar data center near Milan in Augusta Township, southeast of Ann Arbor, and got the township board to conditionally rezone 522 acres in July 2025 over its own planning commission's recommendation to deny. Opponents gathered enough signatures to force a townshipwide referendum, and on August 4, 2026 about 90 percent of voters chose to overturn the rezoning. The project cannot proceed on that land unless it is rezoned again.

Status: Denied
Operator: Thor Equities
Applicant on record: Thor Equities
Location: Augusta Township, Washtenaw County, MI (approximate, city center)
Size: 100 MW, 522 acres
Cooling: Not reported
Utility: DTE Electric
Last updated: August 29, 2026

Sources

Augusta Township, Michigan, Rezone Agricultural Residential to General Industrial for Data Center Initiative (August 2026), Ballotpedia
Augusta Township voters overturn Data Center rezoning, WEMU-FM, 2026-08-05
Tiny Michigan town hopes to stop data center with ballot initiative, Bridge Michigan

What it would mean nearby

The cooling design has not been reported. If it uses evaporative cooling, a 100 MW facility would draw roughly 317,000 to 1.1 million gallons of water a day, about what 3,600 households use.

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.

For a noise estimate and the three distance rings, check your own address.