Data center park developer Cloverleaf is eyeing another potential campus in Michigan.
According to the Frenchtown Charter Township website, the township has been approached by Cloverleaf Infrastructure about a data center project.
The company aims to acquire township-owned property for the development of a data center adjacent to the I-75, located on the former River Raisin Golf Course in Monroe County.
Site plans seen by local press suggest four data center buildings could be developed across 200 acres, though detailed plans haven’t been shared. The site will reportedly use a closed-loop cooling system.
Cloverleaf spoke to local residents about the development at a community meeting this week. A number of residents spoke out against the proposals at the busy meeting.
The 18-hole golf course, located at 1500 N. Dixie Highway, closed around 2019. The site was set to host a new ProMedica Monroe Regional Hospital. After buying the land in 2016, ProMedica canceled plans for the new development in 2023 and sold the 275-acre site to the township earlier this year.
A Change.org petition against the data center proposals has more than 550 signatures at the time of writing.
Cloverleaf, which raised $300 million last year, is developing sites across the US to support large-scale data center development. Among them is a huge campus in Georgia, alongside a large plot in Port Washington, Wisconsin, which Vantage is reportedly interested in taking over.
The company had been working on a separate development in Michigan, in Dundee Township. Plans for the 750-acre site, also in Monroe County and known as Project Ironwood, were withdrawn in October amid local pushback.
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