Meta Howell Township Data Center
Howell, Livingston County, MIDeveloper: MetaCensus GEOID 26093
- Stage
- Proposed
- Undisclosed in public filings
- Power, Land, Water
Meta proposed a hyperscale data center campus in Howell Township, Livingston County, Michigan. It is proposed, since November 21, 2025.
How much power it needs, how much water it would use and who would use it have not been disclosed.
Tap a pin for the data center, the parcel for its record
- This record: Proposed, ringed
- data center
- Smaller pins: 24 other published records in Michigan
Details
- this record's location, ringed
- parcel outline, from the county parcel record
- city limits, U.S. Census Bureau, on a town level record
- county boundary
The other pins are the published projects in the same state, each in its stage color. The imagery beneath is the USGS national orthoimagery, public domain, shown so the land around the site can be read.
How to read this page. Every fact links to the source it rests on; a number in brackets is its place in the source list. A figure no source gives reads Not disclosed, and nothing is estimated. Where sources give different figures, each is shown with who gave it, and another source's figure never stands in for the record's own. Entries are added and never overwritten; corrections are listed under What happened.
What is known
Each figure as its source gave it. The number in brackets is its place in the source list.
- Buildings
- 4 buildings zoning application, verified October 27, 2026
- Who leads it
- Meta as stated by the source
- Undisclosed in public filings
- Land, Power it would draw, Water, Who would use it, Jobs once it runs, Tax each year
Every field, with who said it and when (Researcher view)
Impact figures
| Field | Value | Who says so | Source | Last verified |
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| How much power it needs | ||||
| How much water it would use | ||||
| How loud it would be | ||||
| Jobs once it runs | ||||
| Tax it would pay each year |
The record's fields
| Field | Value | Who says so | Source | Last verified |
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| Who is building it | Meta | as stated by the source | October 27, 2026 | |
| Who is constructing it | ||||
| How much land | ||||
| Buildings | 4 buildings | zoning application, verified October 27, 2026 | howelltownshipmi.org (opens in a new tab) | October 27, 2026 |
| Where its power comes from | ||||
| Grid connection | ||||
| How it is cooled |
A blank value cell means not disclosed by any source on file; a blank basis cell means the source gave the figure without saying on what basis.
The developer's figure is what the company said; what a permit allows is the ceiling a permit sets; measured means observed. Water is in gallons a day or a year, whichever the source stated; a tax claim given as a range shows both ends, each linked to the source that gave it.
Still not public, and where it would show up
The record adds each the day a source gives it. Why these documents.
- Water use A state water right filing or a water supply agreement.
- Who would use it A lease announcement or a tenant named in a filing.
- Power the campus would draw A utility or public service commission docket, an interconnection filing, or an air permit for an on site plant.
- Jobs and tax An incentive agreement, a county's economic development filing or a fiscal note.
What was decided
Acts of Livingston County and Howell about data centers, on the record with their source. A rule about the area is not a decision about this record.
June 15, 2026 Howell, MI Upset residents push back on data center near Howell
In Howell, Livingston County (MI), Howell City Council and local residents debated municipal data center siting, utility infrastructure load, water consumption, and zoning rules during the June 15, 2026 session.
- Howell City Council Officials and Speakers Elected Official auto captions, unchecked
">> Deny it. It's the simplest thing. It's the best thing. [clears throat] It's what everybody's want. [applause] >> I'm confident if you do the right thing, we all have your back. If you do the wrong thing, you can join Green Township and go in and what happened there. Please do the right thing. >> And do you sign an NDA? >> Okay. I believe all of you should be"
- Resident public comment Resident Public Comment auto captions, unchecked
"clear. Regardless of what happens tonight, we are not going anywhere and our minds will not be changed. >> [cheering and applause]"
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What happened
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· Status: proposed (content date)
Meta is identified by a Howell Township trustee as the developer behind a planned data center in Howell, Michigan.
The full Meta Howell Township Data Center timeline, in order
The site
The pin is the site. The shaded outline is the parcel, from the county's own parcel record.
- Where
- Grand River Avenue and Fleming Road, Howell, MI 48855, Howell, Livingston County, Michigan [source] (opens in a new tab)
- How exactly it is located
- Exact, on the parcel
- The parcel
- No parcel outline in the public record
- Nearest homes
- Not computed for a record placed at a place center
- Nearest records
- Verrus Project Flex Lyon Township Data Center, 17 mi
- Oracle and OpenAI Saline Township Data Center, 24 mi
- Mason Data Center Proposal, 26 mi
- University of Michigan and Los Alamos National Laboratory Hyperscale Data Center, 32 mi
- Otava Metro Detroit Data Center (Westland), 32 mi
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Questions about this project
5 questions answered from the record
How big is Meta Howell Township Data Center?
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The record has one measure of its size: 4 buildings (zoning application, verified October 27, 2026, howelltownshipmi.org (opens in a new tab)). Its power capacity is not disclosed.
Who is building Meta Howell Township Data Center?
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Meta is the developer. No construction contractor is named on the record yet.
How much power and water does Meta Howell Township Data Center say it needs?
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Power: not disclosed by any source on file. Water: not disclosed by any source on file.
Where does Meta Howell Township Data Center stand today?
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It is proposed, since November 21, 2025. The newest entry, November 21, 2025: Meta is identified by a Howell Township trustee as the developer behind a planned data center in Howell, Michigan. [1]
What has Howell or Livingston County decided about it?
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No decision by Howell or Livingston County about data centers is on the record. The Livingston County page and the Michigan scorecard list every rated row the day a person publishes one.
Sources
Reporting
- Meta is behind planned Howell data center: Township trustee - Planet Detroit (opens in a new tab), Planet Detroit, November 21, 2025, query feed
1 source on file.
About this data
Last verified , first recorded . Every correction is logged on the corrections page. Report a correction · Send a tip about Meta Howell Township Data Center
Cite this page
Data Center Record, "Meta Howell Township Data Center", https://datacenterrecord.org/projects/meta-howell-data-center-mi. Data: Data Center Record, datacenterrecord.org, CC BY-NC 4.0.
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For researchers
- Stage
- Proposed
- Tier
- built from one source
- Tags
- Built from one source
- Coordinates
- 42.60813, -83.93434
- How the location is known
- Location from the county parcel record.
- Location source
- https://howelltownshipmi.org/
- Coordinate source
- Howell Township planning record
- Published
- September 28, 2026
- Last verified
- October 27, 2026
- Undisclosed in public filings
- Location source number, Location last verified, EPA registry id, Uses, Tenancy, Cooling, How capacity was disclosed, How water was disclosed, How acreage was disclosed, Interconnection, Capacity, if disclosed, Rating of the county's rows