Deep Green wants to build a 24 MW data center on underused parking lots in downtown Lansing, with Lansing potentially becoming its first US site.
Power is a big part of the deal: Deep Green would fund the necessary electrical infrastructure upgrades rather than pushing those costs onto the utility or city.
Cooling and heat reuse are central to the pitch, with water-cooled systems tied into Lansing’s existing hot-water distribution to cut natural gas use and move away from legacy steam.
This is a “small” data center by hyperscale AI standards, but clearly aimed at distributed, heat-reuse-friendly compute rather than mega campuses.
Deep Green is signaling a broader strategy of 10–20 similar small data centers across the US, likely targeting dense urban load pockets and municipal partners.
Local planning is not a rubber stamp: the planning commission opposed conditional rezoning even as it approved the land sale, and final decisions move to City Council and committees into 2026.
The article is worth a read for how a midwestern city is weighing energy, real estate, and community benefits in a next-wave, heat-reuse data center proposal.
