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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
Cancelled

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
Stated investment
$120 million

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.”

Power

UtilityLansing Board of Water and Light [1]
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]
Source excerpt
“up to $120,000 each year to the Board of Water and Light's Pennies for Power Program”

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

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]

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