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Deep Green Lansing data center

Lansing, Ingham County, MIDeveloper: Deep Green

Also known as Deep Green downtown Lansing data center

CancelledDeep Green withdrew its conditional rezoning request on April 6, 2026
  1. Rumored
  2. Proposed
  3. Approved
  4. Under construction
  5. Operating

Deep Green, in partnership with the Lansing Board of Water and Light, sought permission to build a 24-megawatt, $120 million data center at Cedar and Kalamazoo streets in downtown Lansing, with 16 megawatts to come from on-site fuel cells and waste heat to be supplied to the utility. The company withdrew its conditional rezoning request on April 6, 2026, and the council president said the proposal will not move forward.

Planned capacity
24 MW[1]
Stated investment
$120 million[3]

Key facts

Size & schedule

Planned capacity24 MW [1]
Source excerpt
“Developer Deep Green, in a partnership with Lansing's publicly owned utility, the Board of Water and Light, is seeking permission from the city to build a 24-megawatt data center at the corner of Cedar Street and Kalamazoo Street.”
Floor area25,000 sq ft [3]
Source excerpt
“two-story, 25,000-square-foot data center on four lots on Kalamazoo Street between Cedar and Larch streets”
Stated investment$120 million [3]
Source excerpt
“For the $120 million project to have moved forward, five of eight council members needed to vote yes on a conditional rezoning.”

How big is that? Data center sizes compared with football fields and Central Park.

Power

UtilityLansing Board of Water and Light [1]
Utility pages: Lansing Board of Water & Light · data centers and bills
Source excerpt
“The facility would draw eight megawatts of its power from the Board of Water and Light's existing energy supply.”
On-site generation16 MW [1]
Source excerpt
“The remaining 16 megawatts would be generated through on-site fuel cells.”
On-site generation typenatural gas fuel cells [3]
Source excerpt
“two-thirds of the power for the 24-megawatt data center would come from natural gas fuel cells that would be built on site”

Water

Water useless than 500,000 gallons per year [1]
annual figure stated by the CEO; no daily figure given
Source excerpt
“CEO Mark Lee told the Lansing City Council at its Feb. 9 meeting that the facility would use less than 500,000 gallons of water annually”

Money & incentives

Payments / community benefitsUp to $120,000 per year to the Board of Water and Light's Pennies for Power Program [1]

Figures are as stated by the cited source. Where sources disagree, each figure is shown.

Water and power

Water

Power

Planned capacity24 MW [1]
UtilityLansing Board of Water and Light [1]
On-site generation16 MW [1]

Disclosed figures only, each as the cited source states it. Many are projections or permit limits, not metered use. How data center water and power use is measured, and every disclosed figure →

Timeline

  1. Residents raise concerns about the proposal at a Lansing City Council public hearing [2]

  2. Lansing Planning Commission approves the proposal, sending it to City Council [4]

  3. Deep Green withdraws its conditional rezoning request [3]

Issues raised

  • Neighbors at the February 2026 hearing raised concerns about limited community input before rezoning [2]
  • The company planned to capture waste heat and feed it back into Lansing's energy system [2]
  • Council President Peter Spadafore said the downtown proposal will not move forward [5]

Issues are concerns and claims raised by the parties, officials or residents named in the cited sources. They are reported as attributed, not as findings by the Census.

Sources

  1. Demystifying Deep Green's proposed data center near downtown Lansing
    Michigan Advance · Feb 23, 2026 · news
  2. Deep Green data center proposal faces pushback at Lansing City Council
    WILX · Feb 9, 2026 · news
  3. Deep Green withdraws rezoning request for data center. What we know
    Lansing State Journal (via AOL) · Apr 6, 2026 · news
  4. Deep Green Data Center Advances in Lansing
    Lansing Regional Chamber of Commerce · Mar 4, 2026 · other
  5. Company behind Downtown Lansing data center project withdraws application, officials say
    WILX · Apr 6, 2026 · news

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Last updated Sep 23, 2026. Figures may change as records are updated — include the date you retrieved them.

APAData Center Census. (2026). Deep Green Lansing data center. Retrieved from https://datacentercensus.com/dc/deep-green-downtown-lansing-mi
MLA“Deep Green Lansing data center.” Data Center Census, Sep 23, 2026, https://datacentercensus.com/dc/deep-green-downtown-lansing-mi.
Linkhttps://datacentercensus.com/dc/deep-green-downtown-lansing-mi

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