Deep Green Data Center, Lansing, Michigan

Deep Green, a UK company, withdrew its plan for a $120 million, 24 megawatt data center in downtown Lansing, Ingham County, Michigan, on April 6, 2026, hours before the city council was due to vote on rezoning the site. "What this means: the data center proposal downtown will not move forward," Council President Peter Spadafore wrote that afternoon. Three months later, on July 13, 2026, the council voted 7-1 for a 182-day moratorium on new data centers while it writes rules.

The project, announced in November 2025 with the municipally owned Lansing Board of Water & Light, was a two-story, 25,000-square-foot data center on a 2.7-acre city-owned parking lot between Kalamazoo, Cedar and Larch streets. Deep Green would have given its waste heat free to BWL's downtown hot water system, which General Manager Dick Peffley said meant "about $1.1 million in savings that will allow us to reduce our budget." Mayor Andy Schor backed the project without asking the city for an incentive or tax break, crediting Deep Green with heat capture, closed-loop cooling and paying for the infrastructure the site needed.

Opposition built through late 2025. Ingham County Commissioner Chris Trubac said, "Really my concern is just that I want to make sure that peoples' voices are heard and that we really take the time to scrutinize these contracts and these agreements to ensure that people are protected." In December the Planning Commission recommended selling the land to Deep Green but voted against the rezoning it needed. After the withdrawal, Deep Green chief executive Mark Lee said "our commitment to building data centers the right way has never been stronger," while the Lansing Regional Chamber of Commerce called it "a deeply disappointing outcome for our community."

The land remains parking lots, and Schor has asked residents who suggested housing there to bring forward proposals. Councilmember Jeremy Garza cast the lone vote against the later moratorium, arguing the city should not single out one type of development. The Lansing City Council will decide the permanent zoning rules that come out of its 182-day review.