LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) — The owners of a data center company from the United Kingdom met with residents Saturday morning to discuss their proposal to create a 24 megawatt data center in downtown Lansing.
Luke Gavin, vice president for North America at Deep Green, presented a plan to place a data center on the city of Lansing’s underutilized parking lots. He — along with Dick Pfeffley, general manager of the Lansing Board of Water and Light, and Lansing’s economic development officials — joined First Ward Councilman Ryan Kost at his monthly constituent meeting to present the plan and answer questions.
“Ultimately, we’re a glorified warehouse,” Gavin told a gathering of about 50 people. “It’s not going to be Meta or OpenAI because we’re far too small.”
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Under the plan, Deep Green would pay for infrastructure upgrades for the electricity it would use, and it would also pay to connect water-cooling systems to the current BWL hot-water distribution systems, reducing the amount of natural gas used to generate hot water for multiple downtown buildings. The system is a closed loop, meaning it does not require the constant addition of new water to continue operations…