People flooded a catered open house for a proposed Van Buren Township data center Thursday, with representatives of the Panattoni Development Co. and DTE Energy on hand to discuss what’s billed as “Project Cannoli” on Panattoni’s materials.
Planet Detroit received conflicting information about the project from developers and township officials. All agree the facility would use roughly 1 gigawatt of electricity, equivalent to the energy required to power around 800,000 homes.
The project would likely require diesel backup generators for use during an outage, Adam Kramer, head of data centers for Panattoni, told Planet Detroit. The company hasn’t determined what kind of cooling technology is needed, he said…