Project Cannoli

The project

Electrical demand

1,000 MWannounced

Capacity stated by the developer or the host municipality

Developer

Panattoni Development

End user

Google

Serving utility

DTE Electric

Expected online

Load begins December 2027, full capacity December 2028

Grid, generation or storage

Google has committed to investing in 2.7 GW of new generation, including solar — more than twice the facility's 1 GW maximum load. DTE states it will pay for all grid connection and infrastructure costs and that residential rates will not rise as a result.

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.

1. February 11, 2026The Planning Commission approved the site plans 5–1. Charter Township of Van Buren
2. March 2026Google was confirmed as the end user. Charter Township of Van Buren
3. May 20, 2026A development agreement was finalised. Charter Township of Van Buren

Where the sources disagree

Van Buren Township publishes a single 1 GW figure. Cleanview splits the campus into three buildings of 704, 231 and 65 MW, which sum to the same total.

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

How this compares to the load DTE Electric already serves

Running at 1,000 MW for a year at 85% capacity factor works out to roughly 7,446 GWh a year. Every household DTE Electric serves used 15,132 GWh between them in 2024. This one site is therefore about 49% of what every home in the territory uses.

Computed, not quoted. No filing states this figure. The denominator is residential sales only — DTE Electric’s total system load, including commercial and industrial customers, is considerably larger, so this is not a share of the whole grid. The capacity factor is an assumption. The arithmetic is 1,000 MW × 8,760 hours × 0.85, against 2024 EIA-861 residential sales.

What DTE Electric customers pay, before and now

Those figures are DTE Electric’s own EIA-861 filings and they cover the whole territory. This page does not attribute any part of that change to Project Cannoli. It could not honestly: the change spans years in which this project did not exist, rates move for generation costs, storm recovery, tree trimming and approved return on equity all at once, and the large-load terms the Commission has approved are written specifically to keep these costs off other customers’ bills. Whether they succeed is an open question in front of the Commission, not a settled fact this site can assert.

What actually did change DTE Electric rates, case by case →

The terms a large load takes service under here

DTE Electric operates under U-21990, approved December 18, 2025. Approved special contracts for electric service to the Saline Township data center, with conditions — a contract-by-contract approval rather than a general tariff.

Contracted demand

Roughly 1,383 MW.

Contract length

A power supply agreement of roughly 19 years, extendable by the customer for a further 20, plus a separate 15-year energy storage agreement.

Conditions imposed

Cost allocation and rate design proposals ensuring future large-load interconnection customers pay their own interconnection costs, plus an administrative fee for further large loads.

The Attorney General's motion to reopen and her separate petition for rehearing were both denied on 27 March 2026. On 17 April 2026 she filed a claim of appeal in the Michigan Court of Appeals, seeking to invalidate the approval as an unlawful ex parte order and to remand the matter for a contested case hearing. The proceeding is not closed.

• Michigan Public Service Commission: MPSC approves DTE Electric energy contracts for data center with conditions to strengthen protections for other customers
• Michigan Department of Attorney General: Attorney General’s Efforts to Review DTE Data Center Contracts Rejected Again At MPSC
• Michigan Department of Attorney General: AG Nessel Files Appeal of MPSC Approval of DTE’s Saline Data Center Contracts

Related MPSC dockets

• U-22061Still open — not yet decided

  DTE Electric has asked the Michigan Public Service Commission to change its Rate D11 and add a new provision for very large electricity users, such as customers needing more than 100 MW, including a minimum monthly billing amount, administrative fees, a termination fee, and collateral requirements. The Commission has not decided the case; a prehearing is set for April 28, 2026 by video/teleconference. Customers can attend that hearing, file a written comment referencing Case No. U-22061, or file a petition to intervene by April 21, 2026.

  Read the filing

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. [1] Data Center FAQ — Project Cannoli — Charter Township of Van Buren (primary document), read August 21, 2026
2. [2] Google revealed as company behind hyperscale data center "Project Cannoli" — Michigan Public, read August 21, 2026

Watch the docket this project runs through

Large-load contracts, tariff changes and the cases contesting them all arrive as DTE Electric filings. Alerts go out when one is filed and when a comment deadline is set — which is the only window in which a comment counts for anything.