Top Data Center News for 30th March - 4th April, 2026
April 06, 2026
Microsoft Azure
Microsoft has filed a rezoning request for a 40.5-acre portion of its 316-acre holding in Gaines Township. The tech giant, which acquired the land in October 2024, aims to reclassify the parcel from a "large-scale planned unit development" to "light industrial." This change aligns the land's designation with an adjacent southern parcel, clearing the way for the construction of a new data center complex.
Microsoft Corp. purchased 316 acres in southern Kent County from Steelcase Inc. for $45.3 million for a potential data center development in October 2024.
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| 1.31 miles | Switch: Grand Rapids 2 |
Switch is planning second expansion of its data center campus in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Construction of a third data center building on the site is expected to begin "sooner rather than later," with the investment projected to be "several hundred million dollars."
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| 1.52 miles | Switch: Grand Rapids (The Pyramid Campus) |
The Grand Rapids campus is designed for up to 1.8 million square feet of data center space and up to 120 megawatts (MW) of power. It features one of the most unusual data center structures in the country, the Switch Pyramid.
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| 1.56 miles | Switch: Grand Rapids 1 |
After gaining approval in 2021, construction on the first 312,000-square-foot (29,000 sqm) expansion of Pyramid Campus began in 2022.
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| 1.64 miles | Switch: Grand Rapids 3 |
This facility is part of Switch's Pyramid Campus in Grand Rapids.
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| 3.21 miles | US Signal: MI01 Grand Rapids East |
Purpose-built from the ground up for data center operations, the Grand Rapids East, Michigan data center is benchmarked to TIA 942 Tier 3 and 4 standards.
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| 6.01 miles | 123NET: DC4 | |
| 6.01 miles | US Signal Grand Rapids South |
(2) - 800a 480V 3 phase
(2) 500kW diesel generators with 24 run time at full load
675kVa UPS with battery backup
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| 6.05 miles | ManagedWay Byron Center | |
| 8.38 miles | Hyperscale Data Center Request Dataset |
In 2024, Microsoft acquired a 144-acre property in Dorr Township, Allegan County, located along U.S. 131 at 14th st.
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| 8.70 miles | Hyperscale Data Center Request Dataset |
In 2024, Microsoft acquired a 128-acre property in Dorr Township, Allegan County, located along U.S. 131 at 144th Avenue.
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| 9.49 miles | Hyperscale Data Center Request Dataset |
Microsoft has revealed that it is behind a data center project in Lowell Township, Kent County. The project would see 235 acres developed into a data center campus.
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Microsoft uses Containers (called ITPACs) to build out its data centers. These Containers are Shipping Containers fitted with all the necessary climate control, networking, server racks and other hardware necessary to be a “mini” data center all in one.
An Azure region is a set of data centers deployed within a latency-defined perimeter and connected through a dedicated regional low-latency network.
With more global regions than any other cloud provider, Azure gives customers the flexibility to deploy applications where they need to. Azure is generally available in 46 regions around the world, with plans announced for 8 additional regions.
An Azure geography is a discrete market, typically containing two or more regions, that preserves data residency and compliance boundaries.
Geographies allow customers with specific data-residency and compliance needs to keep their data and applications close. Geographies are fault-tolerant to withstand complete region failure through their connection to our dedicated high-capacity networking infrastructure.
Availability Zones are physically separate locations within an Azure region. Each Availability Zone is made up of one or more data centers equipped with independent power, cooling, and networking.
Availability Zones allow customers to run mission-critical applications with high availability and low-latency replication.
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