Mason / Vevay Township Data Center (unnamed developer)

Opposition and litigation at this site

Yes. Mason / Vevay Township Data Center (unnamed developer) in Mason, Ingham County, Michigan is contested. Hearings, public comment, petitions, or organized opposition are on record, and no lawsuit has been filed so far. Tax-sharing negotiations between Vevay Township and the City of Mason broke down, with township officials rejecting an offer reported at at least $1 million per year for 30 years; landowners then moved to petition the Michigan State Boundary Commission to annex the site into the city.

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.

Tax-sharing negotiations between Vevay Township and the City of Mason broke down, with township officials rejecting an offer reported at at least $1 million per year for 30 years; landowners then moved to petition the Michigan State Boundary Commission to annex the site into the city. A residents' campaign site (masondatacenterfacts.org) and a reported recall effort against the mayor and a council member were surfaced in search results but were NOT fetched in this run, so they are not cited here.

Source: Baldori Law

Notes on the record

Hyperscale proposal on roughly 400 acres of farmland at 3388 W. Columbia Road, currently in Vevay Township and the subject of an annexation petition to the City of Mason. Operator/end user is deliberately recorded as undisclosed: neither the developer nor the eventual tenant has been publicly identified, an attorney at Dykema Gossett PLLC notified city officials in February 2026 on behalf of an unnamed client. Investment: WILX quotes the city manager on a 'minimum investment of a billion dollars' (recorded here); the Baldori Law tracker separately states a 'minimum $500 million taxable investment', these are different measures (total investment vs taxable base) and the divergence is recorded rather than reconciled. Expected tax capture reported at $7.6 million annually. NO megawatt capacity, water figure, or job count is stated in either source, so those fields are omitted. Coordinates from the US Census geocoder for the address in the utility request; parcel boundary not confirmed.

Other sites within 30 miles

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.

• Grand River Power Company Smithville Bitcoin Mine · Eaton Rapids · Grand River Power Company10 mi · Operating · Contested
• Deep Green Lansing Data Center · Lansing · Deep Green12 mi · Cancelled · 24 MW · Mixed reception
• Howell Township Hyperscale Data Center · Howell · Stantec Consulting Michigan / Randee LLC25 mi · Cancelled · Opposed

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