Data Center Registry
Kalkaska Go
Kalkaska County, Michigan
Kalkaska Go is a cancelled data center in Michigan (Kalkaska County), operated by Rocklocker LLC. The public record puts it at 1,440 acres. It faces documented, organized local opposition.
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Facility record
Cancelled
- Operator
- Rocklocker LLC
- Facility type
- Data center
- Location
- Kalkaska County, MI
- Coordinates
- 44.7255, -85.2916 (approximate)
- Power capacity
- Not established from a public source
- Land
- 1,440 acres
- Investment
- Not established from a public source
- Announced
- Not established from a public source
- Utility
- Not established from a public source
- Power source
- On site gas
- Cooling
- Not established from a public source
- Water use
- Not established from a public source
- Jobs
- Not established from a public source
- Public subsidy
- Not established from a public source
- Community reception
- Opposed
- Source confidence
- Confirmed by multiple independent sources or official documentation
Timeline from the record
Newest first. Record entries come from the filings and reports the registry cites. Coverage entries are headlines from publisher feeds we monitor daily, linked to the outlet; last checked September 14, 2026.
- November 20, 2025CancelledRocklocker withdrew the proposal after public opposition and the DNR's rejection of the state-land purchase request. Source: The Ticker (Traverse City)
- November 2025ProposedRocklocker LLC (through project name 'Kalkaska Go') proposed a hyperscale data center campus with a captive on-site natural-gas power plant and carbon capture on 1,440 acres of Michigan DNR-managed state land, projecting roughly $35M/year in local tax revenue. Source: 9&10 News
Opposition and litigation at this site
Yes. Organized local opposition to Kalkaska Go in Kalkaska County, Michigan is documented in the public record, without a lawsuit on file in the sources we track. A Nov 17, 2025 community forum drew organized opposition over noise, water use, and industrializing public state land; project personnel reportedly received anonymous threats (upnorthlive, WKAR-syndicated coverage).
How the community has taken it
Reception is a sourced signal, not an editorial judgment: opposed means documented, organized local opposition is the dominant signal on record.
A Nov 17, 2025 community forum drew organized opposition over noise, water use, and industrializing public state land; project personnel reportedly received anonymous threats (upnorthlive, WKAR-syndicated coverage). The Michigan DNR formally rejected Rocklocker's request to purchase the state land parcel. Developer Matt Rine withdrew the proposal on 2025-11-20, citing the community response: "We sought public input because we want to be partners with the community we live and work in. And we heard you."
Power and water
Proposed as a 'net-zero' design with an on-site natural gas power plant paired with carbon-capture technology intended to sequester emissions in the local Antrim Shale formation (Traverse Ticker, retrieved 2026-09-13). No MW figure for either the data center or the power plant was published; coverage described it only as 'gigawatt-scale' and 'multi-billion-dollar', which is not a number this record can carry.
Notes on the record
Location is a representative point at Island Lake in Kalkaska Township, Kalkaska County -- the state-land parcel was never assigned a street address in any source found (checked 2026-09-13). Coverage places it 'near Island Lake and South River roads'; a data-center directory listing (baxtel.com) separately gives 'N River Rd, Kalkaska Township, MI' for the same withdrawn project -- the two road names were not reconciled to a single confirmed segment, so precision is set to approximate rather than exact. A community informational meeting tied to this project was separately reported as scheduled/cancelled in Coldsprings Township, a different township in the same county; that is the meeting venue, not the project site.
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.
- Power capacity in megawatts
- Cooling method and water use
- Tax abatements or other public subsidy
- Permanent jobs promised
- Which utility serves it
Which document closes each gap
- Power capacity in megawatts
- The utility's large load service agreement, the interconnection request in the grid operator's queue, or the electrical site plan in the permit file.
- Cooling method and water use
- The water service agreement, any groundwater appropriation permit, and the mechanical narrative in the site plan.
- 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.
- Permanent jobs promised
- The economic development application or incentive agreement, which usually states a job commitment and a clawback.
- Which utility serves it
- The electric service agreement or the utility's filing with the state public utility commission.
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Questions people ask about this site
Is there opposition to the Kalkaska Go data center in Kalkaska County, Michigan?
Yes. Organized local opposition to Kalkaska Go in Kalkaska County, Michigan is documented in the public record, without a lawsuit on file in the sources we track. A Nov 17, 2025 community forum drew organized opposition over noise, water use, and industrializing public state land; project personnel reportedly received anonymous threats (upnorthlive, WKAR-syndicated coverage).
Has anyone filed a lawsuit over the Kalkaska Go data center?
No lawsuit over Kalkaska Go appears in the record we track as of September 13, 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 Kalkaska Go use?
No water withdrawal figure for Kalkaska Go is on record here. Water use is rarely published voluntarily; it usually surfaces through a utility service agreement or a state withdrawal permit, both of which are public records. We leave the number blank rather than estimate one.
Who operates Kalkaska Go, and how big is it?
Rocklocker LLC is the operator on record. No capacity figure is on record for this site. The site is recorded at 1440 acres.
How to cite this page
SueDataCenters.org Data Center Registry, "Kalkaska Go," updated September 13, 2026, https://suedatacenters.org/data-centers/rocklocker-kalkaska-go-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/rocklocker-kalkaska-go-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.Developer Pulls Plug on Kalkaska Data Center · The Ticker (Traverse City) · retrieved September 13, 2026
- 2.Rocklocker: Kalkaska Township, MI Data Center · Baxtel · retrieved September 13, 2026
- 3.Residents voice concerns over proposed data center in Kalkaska County · 9&10 News · retrieved September 13, 2026
- 4.Proposed Kalkaska County data center halted after public feedback, company president says · UpNorthLive (WPBN/WGTU) · retrieved September 13, 2026
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