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North America

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Microsoft: Grand Rapids Campus

Utility Provider: Consumers Energy (MISO Zone 7)

Lot Size: 414 acres

Site History

Aug 2024: Microsoft Corporation purchases 316 acres at 4450 76th Street SE from Steelcase Inc. for $45.3M.
Oct 2024: Land purchase publicly reported as potential data center site.
Nov 2024: Microsoft acquires adjacent 40.5 acres at 7147 Patterson Ave SE from Republic National Distributing Co. for $9.7M.
Dec 2025: Microsoft files request to rezone 5 parcels (~104 acres along Patterson Ave SE & 76th St SE) from large-scale planned unit development to light industrial.
Jan 2026: Microsoft confirmed publicly as the developer behind the project.
Mar 3, 2026: Microsoft hosts community open house at the Kindred Event Center (3449 76th St) covering energy, water, jobs, and community benefits.
Apr 13, 2026: Microsoft details $45M+ initial plan ahead of public hearing.
Apr 15, 2026: Gaines Township Planning Commission votes 7-0 to table rezoning recommendation after 5.5-hour public hearing; hundreds of residents attended South Christian High School auditorium in opposition.
2026 (pending): Microsoft tentative contract for additional 57.8 acres at 4100 68th St SE (former Steelcase wood plant) — bringing assembled total to ~414 acres.

Project Profile

Developer: Microsoft Corporation (direct purchase, no shell LLC identified)
Use: AI data center campus
Total assembled land: ~414 acres (316 + 40.5 + 57.8 pending)
Total disclosed land investment: ~$55M ($45.3M Steelcase + $9.7M Republic National; 57.8-acre parcel price undisclosed)
Stated initial project investment: $45M+ disclosed to township
Status: Planned — rezoning tabled pending township board action
Local conditions proposed: 65 dBA noise limit at residential property lines (85 dBA emergency generator use); wastewater, air quality, and infrastructure-upgrade requirements with Microsoft funding all utility upgrades.
West Michigan cluster: One of three announced Microsoft campuses — also Lowell Township (~15 mi NE, 235 acres at 4687 Alden Nash Ave SE, Covenant Business Park) and Dorr Township (~20 mi SW, 272 acres off 144th Ave near US-131, $48M land buy 2024).

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Distance	Site	About
1.42 miles	Switch: Grand Rapids 3	This facility is part of Switch's Pyramid Campus in Grand Rapids.
1.59 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.
1.79 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.
1.93 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."
2.57 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.
4.22 miles	123NET: DC4
4.22 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
4.27 miles	ManagedWay Byron Center
7.89 miles	Point AlphaInterested in this information?Contact us	In 2024, Microsoft acquired a 144-acre property in Dorr Township, Allegan County, located along U.S. 131 at 14th st.
8.29 miles	GammaInterested in this information?Contact us	In 2024, Microsoft acquired a 128-acre property in Dorr Township, Allegan County, located along U.S. 131 at 144th Avenue.
11.14 miles	PlusInterested in this information?Contact us	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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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.

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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.

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Availability Zones allow customers to run mission-critical applications with high availability and low-latency replication.

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