The data center fight in Lansing, Michigan
As of September 27, 2026, Lansing, Michigan has a data center moratorium in force (documented end date 2027-01-25).
Status is derived, not stored — a pause with a documented end date flips to Expired on its own — and the source is right next to the claim.
Status today
Lansing City Council passed 182-day moratorium on Jul 14, 2026 (7-1 vote). Takes effect Jul 27, lasts until Jan 25, 2027. Pauses new building permits and zoning applications for data centers. Follows withdrawal of Deep Green AI proposal for downtown data center.
SourceNews
read 2026-09-06
An expiry date is the earliest a pause could have ended — extensions are common, so confirm with the clerk before citing it.
The project on the table
Deep Green downtown data center — Withdrawn
Operator: Deep Green (UK) · Size: 24 MW · Acres: 2
24 MW data center plus a 16 MW fuel-cell plant on 2.5 acres near the Grand River downtown, with a closed-loop water-glycol cooling system (~500,000 gal/yr). The Planning Commission recommended the rezoning 5-2 in March 2026, but Deep Green withdrew its rezoning request on April 6, 2026, ending the proposal before a council vote.
Next: Withdrawn — confirm it is dead in the record and watch for the same site resurfacing under a new name or LLC.
Latest in the record
- 2026-04-06 — Deep Green withdrew its rezoning application, axing the downtown proposal before City Council voted. · source
- 2026-03-04 — Lansing City Planning Commission voted 5-2 to recommend the rezoning for the 24 MW data center + 16 MW fuel-cell plant. · source
Full dated timeline on the project tracker.
Source. Read 2026-08-07.
Recent news
- East Lansing Extends Data Center Moratorium as City Develops New Regulations
- East Lansing extends data center moratorium as it plans zoning changes
- Lansing moves toward temporary data center moratorium
Automated news aggregation, not human-verified — follow each link to the original outlet. Part of the story tracker, 3 headlines archived.
What to do next
- Questions to ask at the hearing — force specific answers onto the record.
- Estimate the impact — electricity, water, and rate pressure for any facility size in Michigan.
- Model CBA clauses — copy-paste language communities have actually won.
- Michigan briefing — rates, grid carbon, PUC contacts, and every fight in the state.
Nearby in Michigan
- Michigan (HB 5594-5596) (0 mi) — Proposedterm not documented
- East Lansing (4 mi) — Enactedexpires 2027-03-17
- Meridian Township (7 mi) — Enactedexpires soon — 2026-11-19
- Mason (12 mi) — Expiredterm ran to 2026-02-03
- Parma Township (23 mi) — Enactedterm not documented
- Genoa Township (32 mi) — Enactedterm not documented
- Howell Township (33 mi) — Expiredterm ran to 2026-05-20
- Tyrone Township (36 mi) — Expiredterm ran to 2026-06-01
All 64 tracked actions in Michigan are on the state page.
As of August 2026 · changes weekly — re-check before citing
Illustrative rather than exhaustive — dozens of localities churn weekly, and this tracks the ones we have read a source for. **Each row carries its own provenance.** Rows showing a verification date link to the ordinance, the enacting body's own page, or a datable report of the vote, and were read on that date. Rows marked *unverified* came from bulk compilation and have not been checked against a primary source — the locality, the year, and the status may all be off. Verify one of those with the town clerk before citing it as precedent. **Expiry is derived, not asserted.** A row with a documented end date flips to *Expired* on its own once that date passes. A time-limited moratorium whose start date was never documented keeps showing as enacted — that is a known gap, not a claim that it is still in force. Moratoriums are also routinely extended, so an expiry date is the earliest it could have ended, not proof that it did.
Part of the U.S. data center moratorium tracker — open data, CC BY 4.0.