This is a source-attributed discovery row. It can help you find a place and its citations; it is not a DataCenterData finding that the facility is distinct or currently operating.
Facility snapshot
- Operator as published
- Verrus (Sidewalk Infrastructure Partners)
- Address and locality
- Lyon Township · Oakland County · Michigan
- Lifecycle status
- reported proposed
- Facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Not stated
- Source freshness
- 9 September 2026
- Location precision
- exact
- Source confidence
- reported
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-001549
What the source record says
6 buildings, 1.8M sq ft. Anthropic (maker of Claude) reported as the intended end-user tenant, not confirmed directly by Anthropic. Conditional site plan approval since Sept 2025. Coordinates are approximate.
Any MW value is reproduced as source-reported context. Its measurement boundary is not established consistently enough for comparison. Unknown is not zero.
Status history supplied by the source
No status history was supplied in this edition.
Sources and attribution
- Anthropic reported as intended end user of Project Flex data center · Crain's Detroit Business
- HIFLD Electric Retail Service Territories (ORNL/DOE-CESER, 2023-08 vintage) · Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) / HIFLD
- 180-acre data center set to be built in Lyon Township, Michigan (DCD)
- Lyon Township 'may be revisiting' data center site plan: Residents pack meeting (Planet Detroit)
- Project Flex — FAQ · Verrus (Sidewalk Infrastructure Partners)
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.33.0, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID verrus-project-flex-lyon-township-oakland-county-mi. Filtered to data-center records in the 50 U.S. states; selected fields normalized for search and display; DataCenterData directory IDs added.
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