Microsoft Lowell Township site

Paused or under moratorium

Lowell Township, Kent County

Stopped by a local moratorium, an adverse vote that did not kill it, or a developer pause. Not dead.

The project

Electrical demand: No capacity figure on the record
Developer: Franklin Partners
End user: Microsoft
Serving utility: Not confirmed
Serving utility not confirmed. Lowell is served by a municipal system and the township by an investor-owned utility; which applies to this parcel is not on the record.
Site size: 237 acres
Also on the record: The mayor of Lowell has since described the project as dead, but no withdrawal is on the record.

Last checked August 21, 2026. Every field above has been confirmed against the sources listed.

What has happened

Every entry carries the source it came from. Where the record gives no date, the entry says so rather than being placed by guesswork.

On the record, but undated

No source consulted gives a date for these, so they are not placed in the sequence above.

Date not on the recordA public hearing was postponed when attendance exceeded the township hall's capacity and the fire marshal intervened. EDRA of Michigan

Where the sources disagree

Described as 'proposed' by one tracker and 'declared dead by the mayor' by another. Held at paused, because a statement to the press is not a withdrawn application.

Published rather than resolved. Picking a favourite number and printing it alone is how a tracker becomes an opinion.

Sources

Everything above traces to one of these. Local agendas and FAQ pages get replaced in place rather than archived, so each carries the date it was read.

[1] Map of AI data centers in Michigan — EDRA of Michigan, read August 21, 2026