Alterra Marshall Technology & Energy Center

Opposition and litigation at this site

Yes. Alterra Marshall Technology & Energy Center in Marshall, Calhoun County, Michigan is contested. Hearings, public comment, petitions, or organized opposition are on record, and no lawsuit has been filed so far. City of Marshall reworking noise ordinances ahead of the project; public concern over noise, emissions, and impact on Stuart Lake and an adjacent city-owned nature preserve.

How the community has taken it

Reception is a sourced signal, not an editorial judgment: contested means active public debate is on record, with hearings, petitions, or organized opposition, without litigation.

City of Marshall reworking noise ordinances ahead of the project; public concern over noise, emissions, and impact on Stuart Lake and an adjacent city-owned nature preserve.

Power and water

At full buildout the campus could require up to 1,400 MW: roughly 1,000 MW from a co-located natural-gas turbine plant on site, plus up to 400 MW imported from the grid at peak. The generation plant is tracked separately as alterra-marshall-technology-energy-center-gas-mi.

Developer describes a closed-loop liquid cooling system intended to minimize water use; the Marshall mayor put daily use at about 2,000 gallons a day.

Notes on the record

Proposed data center (Marshall Technology & Energy Center, MTEC) plus a co-located natural-gas electric generation facility within Brooks Industrial Park, Marshall. WWMT (2026-04) resolves the load split that earlier reporting left open: up to 1,400 MW required at full buildout, around 1,000 MW of that from on-site gas turbines and up to 400 MW imported from the grid at peak, so capacityMw.planned is the campus power requirement and the 1 GW plant is carried both in energy.onSiteGenerationMw and as its own power_generation record. ~270 acres (112 buildable), roughly half wetlands. Alterra (Toronto-based) estimates 300-500 direct high-skill jobs. Mayor Wolfersberger (2026-01) called it "just a concept" with "no site plans or utility agreements yet"; due diligence runs into Q3 2026, then construction is "probably 18 months to two years away" if approved. Land is already zoned heavy industrial, so no public referendum is required (unlike Augusta Township). Planned closed-loop liquid cooling. Coordinates are an approximate Marshall-area estimate, not parcel-geocoded; the LDFA purchase price ($1.12M) is for land only, not a project investment figure. capacityMw and jobs deliberately left unfilled rather than normalized: the source gives a ceiling ('up to 1,400 megawatts') and a range ('300 to 500 skilled jobs') that does not distinguish construction from permanent. The $1.12M is the land purchase price, not project investment. Figures recorded here for a maintainer to promote if the hedged forms are acceptable.

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Distances are between recorded coordinates, many of which are a city or county centroid, so treat them as approximate. Cumulative load on one utility and one aquifer is the question a planning commission rarely asks.

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