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Thor Equities Augusta Township Data Center (Form8tion)
Augusta Township, Washtenaw County, Michigan · All 2 Thor Equities sites
Thor Equities Augusta Township Data Center (Form8tion) is a cancelled data center in Augusta Township, Michigan (Washtenaw County), operated by Thor Equities. The public record puts it at announced 2024, 810 acres, a reported $1 billion investment. It faces documented, organized local opposition.
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Facility record
Cancelled
- Operator
- Thor Equities
- Facility type
- Data center, AI use likely
- Location
- Augusta Township, Washtenaw County, MI
- Coordinates
- 42.1630, -83.7200
- Power capacity
- Not established from a public source
- Land
- 810 acres
- Investment
- $1 billion
- Announced
- 2024
- Utility
- DTE Energy
- Power source
- Grid
- 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
- 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.
- August 4, 2026CancelledAugusta Township voters overturned the rezoning at the August primary, about 90% voted to overturn, returning the seven parcels to agricultural residential and removing the zoning the project depended on. Results were still unofficial as of 2026-08-05. Source: WEMU-FM
- August 2025ProposedResidents collect 957 signatures for ballot initiative (threshold was 561); question set for 2026 ballot (May or August primary election) to overturn rezoning Source: Planet Detroit
- July 2025ProposedAugusta Township Board of Trustees unanimously approves rezoning of 522 acres despite Planning Commission denial Source: Planet Detroit
- June 2025ProposedAugusta Township Planning Commission recommends denial 5-1, citing inconsistency with land-use plans Source: Data Center Dynamics
- 2024ProposedThor Equities (via Form8tion / JDS Equities II LLC) acquires 810 acres in Augusta Township; seeks rezoning of 522 acres from agricultural/residential to General Industrial Source: Data Center Dynamics
Opposition and litigation at this site
Yes. Organized local opposition to Thor Equities Augusta Township Data Center (Form8tion) in Augusta Township, Washtenaw County, Michigan is documented in the public record, without a lawsuit on file in the sources we track. Opposition ran the full course: the Planning Commission recommended denial 5-1 (2025-06), the Board of Trustees approved the rezoning anyway (2025-07), residents gathered 957 signatures to force a referendum (2025-08), and the rezoning was overturned at the ballot on 2026-08-04 by roughly 90% of voters.
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.
Opposition ran the full course: the Planning Commission recommended denial 5-1 (2025-06), the Board of Trustees approved the rezoning anyway (2025-07), residents gathered 957 signatures to force a referendum (2025-08), and the rezoning was overturned at the ballot on 2026-08-04 by roughly 90% of voters. A recall effort against the township board followed.
Notes on the record
Site north of Milan-Oakville Road, east of Hitchingham Road, Augusta Township, Washtenaw County MI (between Ann Arbor and Monroe). No end user announced; planners cited Google and Microsoft as typical users of this facility type. Form8tion is Thor's digital infrastructure arm (founded March 2023). Capacity not disclosed; at least five large buildings planned. Voter referendum outcome will determine project viability. Coordinates are approximate Augusta Township centroid. SOURCE CONFLICT RESOLVED 2026-08-08: the earlier "rejected by voters" claim in an article predating the election was a pre-election piece describing the UPCOMING vote, the dates now reconcile because the referendum has since been held. Augusta Township voters overturned the 522-acre rezoning on 2026-08-04 (about 90% to overturn), so the parcels revert to agricultural residential. Recorded as "cancelled" because the project's enabling rezoning is gone; note that Thor Equities has NOT publicly withdrawn, and the results were unofficial as of 2026-08-05, revisit if the developer re-applies or the count is certified differently. Status re-check, NO change: the record's 'cancelled' status dated 2026-08-04 corresponds to the Aug. 4 veto referendum on the 522-acre rezoning, and nothing found indicates a revival, appeal or re-rezoning since. CAVEAT: I could not fetch a page carrying the certified vote totals - the Ballotpedia result page returned empty content - so this confirms the mechanism and date, not the tally. Worth one more check before the record is treated as settled.
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 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.
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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.
- Stargate The Barn Campus · Saline Township · OpenAI / Oracle / Related Digital4 mi · Under construction · 1.4 GW · In litigation
- U-M / Los Alamos Research Computing Center · Ypsilanti · University of Michigan (with Los Alamos National Laboratory)9 mi · Proposed · Opposed
- Project Cannoli · Van Buren Township · Google15 mi · Proposed · 1 GW · Contested
- Project Cherry Blossom · Frenchtown Township · Cloverleaf Infrastructure21 mi · Proposed · Mixed reception
- Project Flex · Lyon Township · Verrus (Sidewalk Infrastructure Partners)23 mi · Proposed · Contested
- Wixom Road Data Center Campus · Wixom · Wixom Industrial One / Sansone Group26 mi · Proposed · Opposed
- Gibraltar Data Center (former McLouth Steel site) · Gibraltar · Raeden (with Cal Realty / Ferragon Corp.)27 mi · Proposed · 100 MW · In litigation
- Allen Park Data Center · Allen Park · Solstice Data28 mi · Cancelled · 26 MW · Opposed
Questions people ask about this site
Is there opposition to the Thor Equities Augusta Township Data Center (Form8tion) in Augusta Township?
Yes. Organized local opposition to Thor Equities Augusta Township Data Center (Form8tion) in Augusta Township, Washtenaw County, Michigan is documented in the public record, without a lawsuit on file in the sources we track. Opposition ran the full course: the Planning Commission recommended denial 5-1 (2025-06), the Board of Trustees approved the rezoning anyway (2025-07), residents gathered 957 signatures to force a referendum (2025-08), and the rezoning was overturned at the ballot on 2026-08-04 by roughly 90% of voters.
Has anyone filed a lawsuit over the Thor Equities Augusta Township Data Center (Form8tion)?
No lawsuit over Thor Equities Augusta Township Data Center (Form8tion) 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 Thor Equities Augusta Township Data Center (Form8tion) use?
No water withdrawal figure for Thor Equities Augusta Township Data Center (Form8tion) 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 Thor Equities Augusta Township Data Center (Form8tion), and how big is it?
Thor Equities is the operator on record. We hold 2 sites for that company across the registry. No capacity figure is on record for this site. The site is recorded at 810 acres.
How to cite this page
SueDataCenters.org Data Center Registry, "Thor Equities Augusta Township Data Center (Form8tion)," updated September 9, 2026, https://suedatacenters.org/data-centers/thor-equities-augusta-township-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/thor-equities-augusta-township-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.Local officials recommend denial of Thor Equities data center in Michigan · Data Center Dynamics · retrieved July 6, 2026
- 2.Can 957 signatures halt a $1 billion data center in Augusta Township? · Planet Detroit · retrieved July 6, 2026
- 3.Tiny Michigan town hopes to stop data center with ballot initiative · Bridge Michigan · retrieved July 6, 2026
- 4.HIFLD Electric Retail Service Territories (ORNL/DOE-CESER, 2023-08 vintage) · Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) / HIFLD · retrieved July 23, 2026
- 5.Augusta Township data center battle reaches the ballot, 522 acres, agricultural residential to general industrial, vote set for 2026-08-04 · Planet Detroit · retrieved August 8, 2026
- 6.Augusta Township voters overturn data center rezoning, “about 90% of voters chose to overturn” · WEMU-FM · retrieved August 8, 2026
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