Data Center Registry
Project Flex
Lyon Township, Oakland County, Michigan · All 2 Verrus sites
Project Flex is a proposed data center in Lyon Township, Michigan (Oakland County), operated by Verrus (Sidewalk Infrastructure Partners). The public record puts it at 180 acres. 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
- Verrus (Sidewalk Infrastructure Partners)
- Facility type
- Data center, AI use likely
- Location
- Lyon Township, Oakland County, MI
- Coordinates
- 42.4700, -83.5300
- Power capacity
- Not established from a public source
- Land
- 180 acres
- Investment
- Not established from a public source
- Announced
- Not established from a public source
- Utility
- DTE Energy
- Power source
- Grid
- Cooling
- Closed loop
- Water use
- Not established from a public source
- Jobs
- 210 permanent
- Public subsidy
- Not established from a public source
- Community reception
- Contested
- Source confidence
- Reported by at least one credible outlet or filing
Opposition and litigation at this site
Yes. Project Flex in Lyon Township, Oakland County, Michigan is contested. Hearings, public comment, petitions, or organized opposition are on record, and no lawsuit has been filed so far. Developer (via counsel) threatened injunctions/damages after the township denied a stormwater easement; a $10M community-benefits offer was floated July 2026.
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.
Developer (via counsel) threatened injunctions/damages after the township denied a stormwater easement; a $10M community-benefits offer was floated July 2026.
Power and water
Grid power via a new DTE Energy electrical substation is the defining arrangement.
Developer states closed-loop cooling using approximately 99% less water than legacy designs, and total site use of less than 12 million gallons per year for building, cooling and landscaping combined.
Notes on the record
6 buildings, 1.8M sq ft. Anthropic (maker of Claude) reported as the intended end-user tenant, not confirmed directly by Anthropic. Conditional site plan approval since Sept 2025. Coordinates are approximate.
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
- Tax abatements or other public subsidy
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.
- 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.
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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.
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- Project Cannoli · Van Buren Township · Google17 mi · Proposed · 1 GW · Contested
Questions people ask about this site
Is there opposition to the Project Flex data center in Lyon Township?
Yes. Project Flex in Lyon Township, Oakland County, Michigan is contested. Hearings, public comment, petitions, or organized opposition are on record, and no lawsuit has been filed so far. Developer (via counsel) threatened injunctions/damages after the township denied a stormwater easement; a $10M community-benefits offer was floated July 2026.
Has anyone filed a lawsuit over the Project Flex data center?
No lawsuit over Project Flex 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 Flex use?
No water withdrawal figure for Project Flex is on record here. Cooling is recorded as closed_loop, 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 Flex, and how big is it?
Verrus (Sidewalk Infrastructure Partners) 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 180 acres.
How to cite this page
SueDataCenters.org Data Center Registry, "Project Flex," updated September 9, 2026, https://suedatacenters.org/data-centers/verrus-project-flex-lyon-township-oakland-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/verrus-project-flex-lyon-township-oakland-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.Anthropic reported as intended end user of Project Flex data center · Crain's Detroit Business · 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
- 3.180-acre data center set to be built in Lyon Township, Michigan (DCD) · retrieved July 24, 2026
- 4.Lyon Township 'may be revisiting' data center site plan: Residents pack meeting (Planet Detroit) · retrieved July 24, 2026
- 5.Project Flex, FAQ · Verrus (Sidewalk Infrastructure Partners) · retrieved September 9, 2026
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