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Project Cannoli
Van Buren Township, Wayne County, Michigan · All 53 Google sites · Every Google case on our tracker
Project Cannoli is a proposed data center in Van Buren Township, Michigan (Wayne County), operated by Google. The public record puts it at 1 GW planned. It is the subject of active public debate, with hearings, petitions, or organized opposition on record.
Every line on this page traces to a public source listed at the bottom. Where a figure was looked for and not found, the row says so. A blank is never a zero.
Facility record
Proposed
- Operator
- Facility type
- Data center, AI use likely
- Location
- Van Buren Township, Wayne County, MI
- Coordinates
- 42.2300, -83.4400
- Power capacity
- 1 GW 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
- Mixed
- Cooling
- Not established
- Water use
- Not established from a public source
- Jobs
- Not established from a public source
- Public subsidy
- Local tax abatement approved by Van Buren Township, $125 million, Charter Township of Van Buren, Michigan, 2026
- Community reception
- Contested
- Source confidence
- Confirmed by multiple independent sources or official documentation
Opposition and litigation at this site
Yes. Project Cannoli in Van Buren Township, Wayne County, Michigan is contested. Hearings, public comment, petitions, or organized opposition are on record, and no lawsuit has been filed so far. Planning commission gave preliminary approval (Feb 2026) for a substation/switching station; full Board of Trustees approval still pending.
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.
Planning commission gave preliminary approval (Feb 2026) for a substation/switching station; full Board of Trustees approval still pending. 1,900+ residents signed a petition opposing the project.
Power and water
~1GW need per a DTE utility deal (450MW storage + 1.6GW renewables). $125M in local tax reduction in exchange for $15.4M developer-funded infrastructure + 51 jobs.
Reported to potentially consume up to 3.6 million gallons of water daily.
Public money on the record
| Program | Amount | Granted by | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Local tax abatement approved by Van Buren Township | $125 million | Charter Township of Van Buren, Michigan | 2026 |
Notes on the record
Google confirmed evaluating the site. Coordinates are approximate. Developer: Panattoni Development Co. Status re-check, NO change: only PRELIMINARY site plan approval has been granted (February 2026, already before the record's 2026-08-08 basis). The final site plan vote is still pending, so the record correctly remains '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.
- Permanent jobs promised
- Land area
Which document closes each gap
- Permanent jobs promised
- The economic development application or incentive agreement, which usually states a job commitment and a clawback.
- Land area
- The rezoning application, the plat, or the deed recorded with the county.
Have one of these documents? Send it to us and we will add it to the record with attribution.
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.
- U-M / Los Alamos Research Computing Center · Ypsilanti · University of Michigan (with Los Alamos National Laboratory)6 mi · Proposed · Opposed
- Allen Park Data Center · Allen Park · Solstice Data13 mi · Cancelled · 26 MW · Opposed
- Thor Equities Augusta Township Data Center (Form8tion) · Augusta Township · Thor Equities15 mi · Cancelled · Opposed
- Gibraltar Data Center (former McLouth Steel site) · Gibraltar · Raeden (with Cal Realty / Ferragon Corp.)15 mi · Proposed · 100 MW · In litigation
- Project Cherry Blossom · Frenchtown Township · Cloverleaf Infrastructure17 mi · Proposed · Mixed reception
- Project Flex · Lyon Township · Verrus (Sidewalk Infrastructure Partners)17 mi · Proposed · Contested
- EdgeConneX DET01 · Detroit (Oakland County) · EdgeConneX18 mi · Operating
- Metrobloks Southfield Data Center · Southfield · Metrobloks18 mi · Permitted · 100 MW · Contested
Questions people ask about this site
Is there opposition to the Project Cannoli data center in Van Buren Township?
Yes. Project Cannoli in Van Buren Township, Wayne County, Michigan is contested. Hearings, public comment, petitions, or organized opposition are on record, and no lawsuit has been filed so far. Planning commission gave preliminary approval (Feb 2026) for a substation/switching station; full Board of Trustees approval still pending.
Has anyone filed a lawsuit over the Project Cannoli data center?
No lawsuit over Project Cannoli 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 Project Cannoli use?
No water withdrawal figure for Project Cannoli 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 Project Cannoli, and how big is it?
Google is the operator on record. We hold 53 sites for that company across the registry. Capacity on record is 1 GW.
How to cite this page
SueDataCenters.org Data Center Registry, "Project Cannoli," updated September 9, 2026, https://suedatacenters.org/data-centers/project-cannoli-van-buren-township-wayne-county-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/project-cannoli-van-buren-township-wayne-county-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.Van Buren Township OKs Google data center substation · Planet Detroit · retrieved July 9, 2026
- 2.HIFLD Electric Retail Service Territories (ORNL/DOE-CESER, 2023-08 vintage) · Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) / HIFLD · retrieved July 23, 2026
- 3.Van Buren Township, Data Center FAQ · Charter Township of Van Buren, Michigan · retrieved August 8, 2026
- 4.Van Buren Township, Data Center FAQ · Charter Township of Van Buren, Michigan · retrieved September 9, 2026
- 5.Van Buren Township officials to consider final site plan for Google data center · Detroit Free Press via Yahoo News · retrieved September 9, 2026
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