By Autumn Pitchure | News Channel 3
Publication Date: 2026-06-09 22:07:00
LOWELL TOWNSHIP, Mich. — Hundreds of residents attended a Lowell Township Planning Commission meeting Monday, angry about a proposed data center in their community.
Microsoft presented their plans showing renderings of the proposed site off I-96 and Cascade Road Southeast, with buildings similar to the size and appearance of a distribution warehouse.
In the following document is Microsoft’s data center proposal for the Lowell Township site off of I-96. The proposal includes renderings and a rezoning request.
Several neighbors are expressing their opposition by putting “no data center” signs in their yards.
“Lowell is such a great community and you hear about all the water that gets used and how it effects wells and that kind of stuff, and I just don’t want that to happen,” Lowell Township resident Dianne Macnaughton said.
The large-scale developments house computer servers that store information and data for photos, videos and artificial…
