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Oakland University Campus Computing Facility

Auburn Hills, Oakland County, Michigan

ProposedMixed receptionRecord updated September 9, 2026

Oakland University Campus Computing Facility is a proposed data center in Auburn Hills, Michigan (Oakland County), operated by Fairmount Properties (with Oakland University). The public record puts it at 26 MW planned. It has documented support and documented opposition on record.

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Facility record

Proposed

Operator
Fairmount Properties (with Oakland University)
Facility type
Data center
Location
Auburn Hills, Oakland County, MI
Coordinates
42.6750, -83.2150 (approximate)
Power capacity
26 MW planned
Land
Not established from a public source
Investment
Not established from a public source
Announced
Not established from a public source
Utility
DTE Energy
Power source
Grid
Cooling
Not established
Water use
Not established from a public source
Jobs
30 permanent
Public subsidy
Not established from a public source
Community reception
Mixed reception
Source confidence
Confirmed by multiple independent sources or official documentation

Opposition and litigation at this site

Partly. Both documented support and documented opposition to Oakland University Campus Computing Facility in Auburn Hills, Oakland County, Michigan appear in the record, with no clear majority position. Trustees approved 7-0-1, but some faculty and students remain opposed over environmental impact and the adjacent Native American heritage site.

How the community has taken it

Reception is a sourced signal, not an editorial judgment: mixed reception means documented support and documented opposition both exist with no clear majority position on record.

Trustees approved 7-0-1, but some faculty and students remain opposed over environmental impact and the adjacent Native American heritage site.

Power and water

Planned to draw on existing, unutilized capacity at the on-campus DTE substation.

University states a cooling system that minimizes water consumption, with use anticipated to be comparable to a standard campus office building; the technology is not named.

Notes on the record

Proposed shared university/industry colocation facility on OU's campus (Auburn Hills/Rochester border); site shifted from Parking Lot 35 to Parking Lot 37 to increase distance from a campus hall, a nature preserve, and a Native American heritage site. Cleveland-based Fairmount Properties funds construction, operations, and eventual decommissioning; OU pays nothing and gains an 8x expansion of its own computing capacity. Board of Trustees voted 7-0-1 to proceed into due diligence, design, and construction phases (June 2026); published timeline has due diligence running Oct 2026-June 2027, design July 2027-Fall 2028. Coordinates are an approximate campus-area estimate, not parcel-geocoded. Status re-check, NO change: the only 2026 milestone on the university's own timeline is a Board of Trustees authorization to proceed into due diligence and design (June 2026, already before the record's 2026-08-08 basis). A governing-board authorization is not a municipal permit and no construction start is claimed, so the record stays 'proposed'.

What the record does not establish, and the document that would

In every fight on our tracker the decisive fact came out of a public records request. These are the requests for this site.

  • Tax abatements or other public subsidy
  • Land area
Which document closes each gap
Tax abatements or other public subsidy
The abatement, PILOT, or development agreement approved by the county, city, or development authority, and the state's data center sales tax exemption certificate if one was issued.
Land area
The rezoning application, the plat, or the deed recorded with the county.

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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.

Questions people ask about this site

Is there opposition to the Oakland University Campus Computing Facility in Auburn Hills?

Partly. Both documented support and documented opposition to Oakland University Campus Computing Facility in Auburn Hills, Oakland County, Michigan appear in the record, with no clear majority position. Trustees approved 7-0-1, but some faculty and students remain opposed over environmental impact and the adjacent Native American heritage site.

Has anyone filed a lawsuit over the Oakland University Campus Computing Facility?

No lawsuit over Oakland University Campus Computing Facility appears in the record we track as of September 9, 2026. Residents most often reach a lawyer over water supply, well drawdown, noise from cooling plant, property value, or a rezoning approved without the notice the ordinance required. If any of that is happening near this site, it is worth a review whether or not a case has been filed yet.

How much water does Oakland University Campus Computing Facility use?

No water withdrawal figure for Oakland University Campus Computing Facility is on record here. Cooling is recorded as unknown, which is the strongest available clue: closed loop and air cooled plant draw far less than evaporative cooling. We leave the number blank rather than estimate one.

Who operates Oakland University Campus Computing Facility, and how big is it?

Fairmount Properties (with Oakland University) is the operator on record. Capacity on record is 26 MW.

How to cite this page

SueDataCenters.org Data Center Registry, "Oakland University Campus Computing Facility," updated September 9, 2026, https://suedatacenters.org/data-centers/oakland-university-computing-auburn-hills-mi.

Facility data from Compute Atlas (E. Kubiak), version 1.32.0 (September 7, 2026), licensed CC BY 4.0, record https://www.compute-atlas.com/facilities/oakland-university-computing-auburn-hills-mi, retrieved September 14, 2026.

Corrections with a public source are welcome at the Compute Atlas record or through our contact page. The whole registry is available as CSV and JSON under CC BY 4.0.

Sources for this record

As compiled and cited by Compute Atlas, with our own reporting appended. Archived links are used where the original has moved.

  1. 1.Data Infrastructure Project - Oakland University · Oakland University · retrieved August 8, 2026
  2. 2.Oakland University, Data Infrastructure Project · Oakland University · retrieved September 9, 2026

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