> So where do they ask to put a small data center? Right in the city's entertainment district! Makes less sense than putting it on farmland. Look Michigan needs

> So where do they ask to put a small data center? Right in the city's entertainment district! Makes less sense than putting it on farmland. Look Michigan needs the jobs, just a little common sense would go a long ways. The site of the old GM Fisher Body plant is a sixty acres brownfield. The proposed downtown data center location is a one acre unused parking lot. It is close enough to LBWL, Lansing's utility company for water/electricity, to reuse the generated heat [1]. I don't think this really compares to the 270 acres data center for OpenAi/Oracle planned in Saline Township, which will be connected to one of the few 345kV transmission lines in Michigan. [2] [1] https://www.lbwl.com/community/newsroom/2025-11-05-deep-green-proposes-120-million-sustainable-data-center-investment https://www.lbwl.com/community/newsroom/2025-11-05-deep-gree... [2] https://openinframap.org/#11.64/42.1244/-83.8008 https://openinframap.org/#11.64/42.1244/-83.8008