Proposed-site record
Howell's proposal remains blocked or paused after the rezoning and text-amendment withdrawal. The developer reports up to 1 MGD for an initial building and the township packet contains a 187.5 MW draft campus limit, but neither establishes final utility service, measured water use, energized capacity, IT load, or operating status.
This panel tracks what the facility is for without assuming that every project is AI training, inference, or cloud capacity.
CBS Detroit reports that the Howell Township developer withdrew the proposed 1,000-acre data-center application at the request of the township and applicant, with possible reevaluation. A September 2025 township memo describes the proposed data-processing facility and its construction and operations staffing, while the reviewed public reporting describes a proposed AI data center and reported Meta connection; none establishes a facility-specific workload, customer, hardware or training/inference split.
Santec Consulting/Randee and the reported Meta relationship remain development/end-user leads, not proof of a facility workload allocation. Howell Township minutes record the applicants' withdrawal of the text-amendment request, confirming a permitting-status update rather than a permanent abandonment or workload disclosure. AI wording in local coverage is a project description; it does not establish training, inference, hardware or workload MW.
Sources reviewed; workload unresolved · Reviewed 2026-09-09Training/inference: unknown · class: unknownCBS Detroit: Howell Township data center developer withdraws project applicationWDIV / ClickOnDetroit: Developer pulls rezoning request for proposed AI data center in Howell TownshipHowell Township: Memo: Howell Township proposed data processing facilityHowell Township: Howell Township Board minutes — Stantec/Randee withdrawalSource leads point to attached records or reporting. They still need field-level review before being treated as verified evidence.
Source dataset project_cost field reports $1 billion; public funding records still need local review.
Source reviewed September 9, 2026: the project's water FAQ says the current plan requests up to 1 million gallons per day for the initial building, while actual demand depends on cooling technology and weather. This is a developer planning ceiling, not measured use, a final service agreement, a withdrawal permit, or wastewater capacity; the same FAQ describes an aquifer study and multiple modeled scenarios.
Source reviewed September 9, 2026: Howell Township's March 31, 2026 planning packet proposes maximum campus power usage of 187.5 MW and bars onsite generation other than permitted renewables. Those are draft zoning limits, not a Howell project request, interconnection approval, energized capacity, generation capacity, or data-center IT load; the proposal's utility status remains unresolved after the application withdrawal.
No fuel-cell or Bloom Energy source is attached to this project yet.
No NDA reported
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