The Flint data center in Genesee County was originally GM's disaster recovery facility and offers optimal production and disaster recovery options for Southeastern Michigan with power from grids separate from Online Tech's southeast Michigan data centers.
Launched as Online Technologies Corporation in 1994 as a dial-up internet company and evolved into data center hosting and colocation services.
In 2018, Schurz Communications, a media and telecommunications company based in South Bend, Ind invested in the company. Later that same year, Online Tech acquired the global cloud infrastructure assets of Neverfail.
In 2019, Online Tech rebranded as Otava.
May 11, 2026 Michigan
The primary utility serving Ypsilanti has approved a one-year moratorium on providing water and sewage services to new data center developments. The decision was backed by both the Ypsilanti City Council and the Charter Township Board of Trustees, which voted in favor on March 3 and April 15,...
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January 22, 2026 Michigan
A data center campus spanning 180 acres is set to be built in Lyon Township, Michigan. If the data center – known as Project Flex – is built, it will be located on the east side of Milford Road, south of the Huron Valley Trail crossing and south of New Hudson Drive West. It will consist of six...
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December 18, 2025 Michigan
Logistics real estate firm Panattoni is looking to develop a data center campus outside Detroit, Michigan. The company is said to be targeting 282 acres on the north side of the I-94 and east of Haggerty Road for a potential gigawatt-scale campus."We've been talking to the community,...
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November 13, 2025 Michigan
UK data center firm Deep Green has officially announced plans to expand into the US with the development of a $120 million, 24MW data center in Lansing, Michigan.“Our mission is to accelerate the decarbonization of heat for the benefit of people and the planet,” said Mark Lee, chief executive...
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September 26, 2025 Michigan
Michigan-based Internet Service Provider (ISP) 123Net has expanded its data center in Detroit. Located at 24700 Northwestern Highway in the Southfield area of Detroit, DC1 offers 80,000 sq ft (7,432 sqm) of colocation space. The site has up to 20MW of available utility power. The expansion...
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