LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) — The Lansing City Council will take a pivotal vote on Monday to decide whether a $120 million Deep Green data center will be built on underused city-owned parking lots in the Stadium District, a project city leaders say could reshape downtown’s future finances and heating system.
The proposal, from a United Kingdom-based company, has gone through months of public debate, contract revisions and behind-the-scenes negotiations between Deep Green, the City of Lansing and the Lansing Board of Water and Light.
Here’s what reporting shows about how the project would work and what’s at stake with Monday’s vote.
Where would the data center go, and what would it do?
Deep Green wants to build a 24-megawatt data center in city-owned parking lots at the corner of Kalamazoo and Cedar streets, just east of the Grand River in the Stadium District. The site is currently used as public parking, and the surrounding properties include small businesses to the east, BWL’s water treatment plant to the west and a Wendy’s restaurant to the south…