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Allen Park Data Center

Allen Park, Wayne County, Michigan

CancelledOpposedRecord updated September 9, 2026

Allen Park Data Center is a cancelled data center in Allen Park, Michigan (Wayne County), operated by Solstice Data. The public record puts it at 26 MW planned. It faces documented, organized local opposition.

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Facility record

Cancelled

Operator
Solstice Data
Facility type
Data center
Location
Enterprise Drive, south of I-94, Allen Park, Wayne County, MI
Coordinates
42.2830, -83.1947 (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
Not established from a public source
Cooling
Not established
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
Reported by at least one credible outlet or filing

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.

  1. June 2026
    Cancelled
    Site plan denied 7-2 by the Allen Park Planning Commission on 2026-06-04. Source: Planet Detroit
  2. January 2026
    Proposed
    Planning commission delayed a decision for additional analysis; the vote was postponed three times in total. Source: Planet Detroit

Opposition and litigation at this site

Yes. Organized local opposition to Allen Park Data Center in Allen Park, Wayne County, Michigan is documented in the public record, without a lawsuit on file in the sources we track. The planning commission voted 7-2 on 2026-06-04 to deny the site plan after postponing the decision three times, citing needed zoning-ordinance revisions, missing information and inadequate engineering studies, and a sound study that failed to demonstrate noise mitigation.

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.

The planning commission voted 7-2 on 2026-06-04 to deny the site plan after postponing the decision three times, citing needed zoning-ordinance revisions, missing information and inadequate engineering studies, and a sound study that failed to demonstrate noise mitigation. Residents cheered the rejection; a nurse practitioner raised pollution concerns in an area with high asthma rates near Melvindale High School. The commission also recommended a six-month moratorium on data-center development.

Source: Planet Detroit

Power and water

The source states the cooling system would NOT be connected to municipal water and that the facility's draw would rank below the city's 20th-largest water customer. That rules out a municipally-supplied evaporative load but does not describe the heat-rejection circuit, so coolingType is left 'unknown' rather than inferred as air or closed_loop.

Notes on the record

26 MW proposal on Enterprise Drive south of I-94, near homes and Melvindale High School. Status 'cancelled' records the DENIED site plan; the source does not report an appeal or resubmission. CONFIRMED ABSENCES: no acreage, investment figure, or job count is stated in either source. Coordinates are Nominatim's street-level match for Enterprise Drive, the only location the source gives (no house number); the parcel is not confirmed.

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
  • Permanent jobs promised
  • Land area
  • Which utility serves it
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.
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.
Which utility serves it
The electric service agreement or the utility's filing with the state public utility commission.

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Our reporting on this site

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 Allen Park Data Center in Allen Park?

Yes. Organized local opposition to Allen Park Data Center in Allen Park, Wayne County, Michigan is documented in the public record, without a lawsuit on file in the sources we track. The planning commission voted 7-2 on 2026-06-04 to deny the site plan after postponing the decision three times, citing needed zoning-ordinance revisions, missing information and inadequate engineering studies, and a sound study that failed to demonstrate noise mitigation.

Has anyone filed a lawsuit over the Allen Park Data Center?

No lawsuit over Allen Park Data Center 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 Allen Park Data Center use?

No water withdrawal figure for Allen Park Data Center 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 Allen Park Data Center, and how big is it?

Solstice Data is the operator on record. Capacity on record is 26 MW.

How to cite this page

SueDataCenters.org Data Center Registry, "Allen Park Data Center," updated September 9, 2026, https://suedatacenters.org/data-centers/solstice-data-allen-park-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/solstice-data-allen-park-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.Allen Park planners reject proposed data center: 'We're gonna celebrate with one eye open' · Planet Detroit · retrieved September 9, 2026
  2. 2.How many AI data centers are planned in Michigan? We counted. · Gander Newsroom · retrieved September 9, 2026

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