VAN BUREN TWP. — A new proposal for a massive hyperscale data center has emerged in southeast Michigan, adding to a growing list of projects aimed at powering artificial intelligence and high-performance computing.

Panattoni Data Center Group wants to develop a data center campus on roughly 280 acres in Van Buren Township, near Belleville in Wayne County. The proposed site sits north of an I-94 service drive, south of I-275, east of Haggerty Road and west of Hannan Road, according to materials distributed at an informational open house held Thursday, Dec. 11.

Panattoni has not identified a potential tenant, but similar data center projects across Michigan have attracted backing from major technology companies such as OpenAI, Oracle and Meta, the parent company of Facebook.

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