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Project Flex

New Hudson, Oakland County, MIDeveloper: Verrus

Also known as Verrus Lyon Township data center

ApprovedConditional site plan approval Sept 2025; final site plan still under Planning Commission review
  1. Rumored
  2. Proposed
  3. Approved
  4. Under construction
  5. Operating

Verrus, a Sidewalk Infrastructure Partners company, plans a six-building, 1.8 million sq ft data center on 172 acres south of Grand River Avenue near Milford Road in Lyon Township. The site is zoned industrial and received unanimous conditional site plan approval in September 2025; the final site plan has gone through multiple revisions amid resident opposition, a township moratorium on further data centers, and a developer threat of litigation.

Site size
172 acres[1]
Permanent jobs (promised)
210

Key facts

Size & schedule

Site size172 acres [1]
Floor area1.8 million sq ft [1]
Buildings6 [1]
Permanent jobs (promised)210 [2]
Construction jobs2,000 [2]
stated as 1,500-2,000

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

Power

UtilityDTE Energy (new substation required) [1]
Utility pages: DTE Electric · data centers and bills
Backup generatorsBattery energy storage as primary backup for outages under 4 hours; packaged diesel generators in acoustic enclosures as secondary backup [1]
Source excerpt
“The data center's primary backup power for outages of less than 4 hours would come from a zero-emission battery energy storage system, and for longer outages, packaged diesel generators in acoustic enclosures would be used as a secondary backup, the document said.”

Money & incentives

Tax incentivesDeveloper offers $10 million community benefits package; projects about $300 million in tax revenue over 17 years [2]

Local decisions & site

ZoningI-1 and I-2 industrial zoning, where the developer says data centers are permitted by right [4]
as stated in the developer attorney's May 27, 2026 final site plan response letter
Source excerpt
“The letter also contends that Project Flex falls within I-1 and I-2 industrial zoning, where data centers are permitted by right under Michigan law, requiring only technical compliance review.”

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

Water and power

Water

Not disclosed. No source reviewed gives a water figure for this site. The Census does not estimate one.

Power

UtilityDTE Energy (new substation required) [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 →

Community concerns

Concerns are listed as the cited public sources report them (meeting minutes, dockets, filed cases, official statements and news). They are raised, not validated, and a response is shown beside a concern only where a source reports one. All community concerns →

Noise

  • Residents at a Planning Commission meeting questioned the quality of the sound study; the township said final approval depends on independent review.
    Raised by: residents at public meeting · Jan 13, 2026 · Source: Planet Detroit
    Response from Verrus: The developer said backup batteries are used instead of diesel for short outages and described the systems as low-water. Jan 13, 2026 · Source: Planet Detroit

Noise estimator →

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Timeline

  1. Planning Commission grants unanimous conditional site plan approval [1]

  2. Public meeting draws about 125 residents [1]

  3. Township board adopts six-month moratorium on additional data center proposals [3]

  4. Oakland County Election Commission approves recall petition language against township trustees [3]

  5. Developer's attorney submits final site plan response letter threatening legal action over delays [4]

  6. Verrus submits fifth site plan revision [5]

Issues raised

  • Residents cite sound studies, stormwater, proximity to an elementary school, property values, and water supply [4]
  • The township board denied a stormwater easement requested by the developer [4]
  • Developer says the project will use little to no water and relies on batteries plus diesel generators for backup [1]
  • Developer says annual water use would be under 12 million gallons [2]

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. Lyon Township 'may be revisiting' data center site plan: Residents pack meeting
    Planet Detroit · Jan 13, 2026 · news
  2. Project Flex data center eyes final Lyon Township approval amid pushback from nearby residents
    WXYZ · Jul 16, 2026 · news
  3. Residents fight back: Data center controversy sparks recall attempt against Lyon Township leaders
    WDIV ClickOnDetroit · Apr 28, 2026 · news
  4. Lyon Township residents push back on data center as developer threatens lawsuit
    WXYZ · Jun 1, 2026 · news
  5. Project Flex one year later: Part II
    The Livingston Post · Sep 8, 2026 · news
  6. Project Flex Developer to Go Back Before Lyon Township Planners in September
    WHMI · Aug 31, 2026 · news

Cite this page

Last updated Nov 5, 2026. Figures may change as records are updated — include the date you retrieved them.

APAData Center Census. (2026). Project Flex. Retrieved from https://datacentercensus.com/dc/project-flex-lyon-township-mi
MLA“Project Flex.” Data Center Census, Nov 5, 2026, https://datacentercensus.com/dc/project-flex-lyon-township-mi.
Linkhttps://datacentercensus.com/dc/project-flex-lyon-township-mi

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