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[DetroitMan]

Google behind massive Van Buren Township data center project

Google is the tech company behind a massive "hyperscale" data center project in Van Buren Township.

The California giant on Tuesday announced it is evaluating the site of a proposed 800,000-square-foot, 1-gigawatt data center and has an agreement with DTE Energy to supply upwards of 2.7 gigawatts of capacity — enough electricity to power roughly 2 million homes, or about 60% of all homes in Michigan.

The Detroit-based utility will file proposed energy contracts with state regulators later Tuesday, months after its secured approval of a deal with Oracle for a huge data center in Saline Township, the state's first hyperscaler.

As part of the latest agreement, Google is committing to pay the full cost of the additional load and $10 million toward an Energy Impact Fund to scale initiatives to drive down costs for residents, including programs to weatherize homes and workforce development projects. Existing customers would save $1.7 billion with the addition of the large, high-load customer spreading fixed costs across the grid, according to DTE.

https://www.crainsdetroit.com/technology/google-behind-massive-van-buren-township-data-center