Switch Pyramid Campus
Switch is building a 320 MW data center in Kent County, Michigan (under construction). One source reports this facility in the Kapwork Grow tracker.
- Capacity
- 320 MW
- Investment
- $5B
- Site
- 138 acres
- Reported jobs
- 148
Who's on this build
Named in the cited sources. No source reports who builds it.
- Other Switch builds
Operator
Switch
Utility
Consumers Energy
Timeline
Dates as reported. Not a bid calendar. A planned date is not evidence that work occurred.
- Today
Under construction
Last material change Sep 24, 2026.
- 4 yr ago
Announced
- 4 yr ago
Construction start
Reported updates without an event date
Reported for 2025-01.
Event date: Not reported · First observed: Not reported
Reported for 2022.
Event date: Not reported · First observed: Not reported
Reported for 2022.
Event date: Not reported · First observed: Not reported
Record quality
- Datasets
- 1
- Location
- Site footprint confirmed
- Summary
- From published records
- Source as of
- Last material change
Site and infrastructure
CA Compute AtlasKW Kapwork Grow tracker record
Status
- Operator
- Switch
- Stage
- Under construction
- Facility type
- Colocation
Scale
- Reported capacity
- 320 MW
- Reported investment
- $5B
- Site area
- 138 acres
- Reported jobs
- 148
Reported dates
- Announced
- 2022
- Construction start reported
- 2022
Site
- City
- Gaines Township
- County
- Kent
- State
- Michigan
- Location precision
- Site footprint confirmed
Power and cooling
- Utility
- Consumers Energy
- Power source
- Wind
- AI workload
- Mixed use, AI among other workloads
Permits and public records
- Incentives reported
- Michigan data-center sales-and-use tax exemption (PA 251/252 of 2015, enacted for Switch; saved ~$2M in 2022) (Michigan); Michigan Strategic Fund Renaissance Zone — 15-year personal-property tax exemption (from 2016; ~$1.1M/year), tied to a 103-job pledge that was not met (Michigan / Gaines Township / Kent County)
Sources, method and limits
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What each source reports
| Dataset | Reported name | Reported status | Reported MW |
|---|---|---|---|
| Compute Atlas | Switch Pyramid Campus | Under construction | 320 MW |
Sources and evidence
- CACompute Atlas facility record (Kubiak, E., 2026, CC BY 4.0)As of: Sep 9, 2026 · Record: switch-pyramid-campus-grand-rapids-mi
- CAData Center Dynamics (cited by Compute Atlas)As of: Jul 6, 2026
- CASwitch (cited by Compute Atlas)As of: Jul 6, 2026
- CASwitch (cited by Compute Atlas)As of: Jul 6, 2026
- CABridge Michigan (cited by Compute Atlas)As of: Jul 6, 2026
- CAGoverning (cited by Compute Atlas)As of: Jul 6, 2026
- CABaxtel (cited by Compute Atlas)As of: Jul 6, 2026
- CAReport cited by Compute AtlasAs of: Jul 25, 2026
- CASwitch (cited by Compute Atlas)As of: Sep 9, 2026
- KWKapwork Grow tracker record, merged from the sources listed here (free account)As of: Sep 23, 2026 · Record: 228765366734317
Limitations and interpretation
- This record is the Kapwork Grow tracker's merged view of a facility, from the tracker snapshot built 2026-09-23. Facts tagged KW are the tracker's resolved values; the per-source rows it was merged from are listed under Sources and on the tracker record.
- Sources on this record: Compute Atlas: Kubiak, E. (2026). Compute Atlas [Data set]. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22284476 (CC BY 4.0). Every source is licensed for commercial use with attribution.
- An announced or permitted build is not a contract, an open bid or a purchase order.
- Capacity figures are as reported by the cited sources and may describe planned rather than energised capacity.
Cite or correct this record
Kapwork Grow, “Switch Pyramid Campus”, https://kapwork.com/grow/directory/datacenters/switch-pyramid-campus-mi-dc_d00f966bcded, materially updated Sep 24, 2026.
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An announced or permitted build is not a contract, an open bid or a purchase order. Capacity and dates are as reported by the cited sources. “Not reported” means missing information, not zero. Completed and withdrawn records can remain available as historical records.
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