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Google data center in Michigan City, Indiana

Updated Nov 3, 2026Sources: Compute Atlas; Server Country; Kapwork Grow tracker

Announced Apr 16, 2026, in LaPorte County. No permit on record yet.

No permit on record yet. First seen Aug 15, 2026.

Where

Michigan City, LaPorte County, Indiana.

Exact site not public. Shown at township level.

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Michigan CityLaPorte County
Reported capacity
300MW
Planned, as Server Country (Sep 24, 2026) reports it. 400,000 square feet, per Kapwork Grow tracker. May be planned, not energised, capacity.
Work it brings
Electrical, mechanical, low-voltage, site, fiber
The trades a data center build hires, from the site work to the last mile of fiber.
Who bills here
Google
The operator, per Compute Atlas and Server Country. No public record names its general contractor yet. The carriers show here when a record names them.

  • Nearest other build

    Microsoft La Porte Data Center

    11.3 miles away

  • Builds in LaPorte County

    3

    Published builds in the Kapwork Grow tracker, this one included. Published Nov 3, 2026.

  • Builds in Indiana

    36

    Proposed, approved, under construction or expanding, this one included. Kapwork Grow tracker, published Nov 3, 2026.

  • U.S. data center construction

    $84.95B a year

    August 2026, seasonally adjusted annual rate, preliminary. Up 73.2% from $49.05B in August 2025; 63.3% of private office construction. U.S. Census Bureau, C30, released Oct 1, 2026.

What this means for you

Same customers, bigger invoices.

The electrical, mechanical and fiber work on this campus bills Google, its GC and the carriers you already know. Certify the invoices behind it, and funders compete to fund them.

An announced or permitted build is not a contract, an open bid or a purchase order.

Who your invoice goes to

  • GoogleOperator
  • General contractorNot named yet
  • CarriersNot named yet
  • UtilityNot named yet

Key facts

Stage
Under constructionCompute Atlas · Sep 13, 2026; Server Country · Sep 24, 2026
Reported capacity
300 MWServer Country · Sep 24, 2026
Reported building area
400,000 sq ftKapwork Grow tracker · Nov 2, 2026
Site area
70 acresKapwork Grow tracker · Nov 2, 2026
Reported investment
$832MKapwork Grow tracker · Nov 2, 2026
Reported jobs
30Kapwork Grow tracker · Nov 2, 2026
Announced
Apr 16, 2026Server Country · Sep 24, 2026
Construction start reported
Sep 1, 2026Compute Atlas · Sep 13, 2026
Expected completion
2030Server Country · Sep 24, 2026
Location
Michigan City, LaPorte County, IndianaCompute Atlas · Sep 13, 2026; Server Country · Sep 24, 2026
Location precision
Street address reportedKapwork Grow tracker · Nov 2, 2026
Cooling
Closed loopKapwork Grow tracker · Nov 2, 2026
Facility type
HyperscaleKapwork Grow tracker · Nov 2, 2026
Incentives reported
Vacant building deduction tax abatement (Phoenix MC Invest LLC) (Michigan City, Indiana); Real property improvement tax abatement (Phoenix MC Invest LLC) (Michigan City, Indiana)Kapwork Grow tracker · Nov 2, 2026

What the public record lacks: the general contractor's name and the utility.

Who's involved

Operator
GoogleCompute Atlas · Sep 13, 2026; Server Country · Sep 24, 2026
General contractor
Not named in a public record yet
Carriers
Appear here as the records name them

How far along it is

  1. · Server Country

    Reported as announced

  2. · Kapwork's date

    First seen in the Kapwork Grow tracker (its first snapshot)

  3. · Compute Atlas

    Construction start reported

  4. · Kapwork's date

    Stage under construction first seen by Kapwork

  5. · Server Country

    Expected completion

  6. Date not reported · Server Country

    Expected completion reported

Dates as reported. Not a bid calendar. A planned date is not evidence that work occurred. Dates marked Kapwork's date come from the tracker's own snapshots, not from the sources.

Questions this page answers

Is Google Michigan City Data Center under construction?
No permit record shows it yet, so this page prints it as announced. Compute Atlas (Sep 13, 2026) and Server Country (Sep 24, 2026) report it as under construction.
Who is building Google Michigan City Data Center?
Google is the operator. No public record names the general contractor yet. It shows here the day one does.
When is Google Michigan City Data Center expected to finish?
Server Country reports expected completion in 2030. That is a reported target, not a schedule.
Which carriers serve Google Michigan City Data Center?
No public record names them yet. They show here when a filing does.
How do contractors on Google Michigan City Data Center get paid sooner?
The owner pays the general contractor, and the general contractor pays its subcontractors. Once your customer approves your invoice, certify it with Kapwork. Funders compete to fund it, so you don't wait for the payment date. Free for businesses. Kapwork doesn't lend and doesn't contact your customer.

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Sources, updates and data

Compute Atlas · Server Country · Kapwork Grow tracker · U.S. Census C30

Where this comes from

What each source reports

  • Compute Atlas: Under construction
  • Server Country: Under construction, 300 MW, as “Google Michigan City Data Center (Project Maize)”

Updates

  • Date not reported: Expected completion reported. Server Country
  • 2030: Expected completion. Server Country
  • Between Aug 15, 2026 and Sep 23, 2026: Stage under construction first seen by Kapwork. Kapwork's date
  • Sep 1, 2026: Construction start reported. Compute Atlas
  • Aug 15, 2026: First seen in the Kapwork Grow tracker (its first snapshot). Kapwork's date
  • Apr 16, 2026: Reported as announced. Server Country

Limitations and interpretation

  • This record is the Kapwork Grow tracker's merged view of a facility, from the tracker snapshot built 2026-11-02. 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) · Server Country, https://servercountry.org/data/ (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.

“Not reported” means missing information, not zero. Completed and withdrawn records can remain available as historical records.

Nearest build: Haversine great-circle distance on the tracker latitude and longitude, in statute miles, rounded to 0.1. First-seen dates: first_seen: the earliest committed snapshot of data/dcfo.sqlite holding any of the facility's source keys (source:source_id), narrowed to the nightly run day by the alert sender's facility_new events when they are available. status_first_seen: the start of the unbroken run of snapshots, ending at this one, in which a facility sharing a source key had the current status, narrowed by the latest status_changed event to that status. Dates are Kapwork's, not the sources'.

What we don't know yet

  • The general contractor's name and the utility.
  • The carriers that serve the campus.
  • How the operator and its GC pay their contractors: portal, terms, days to pay.

Spot an error? Tell us

Cite: Kapwork Grow, “Google Michigan City Data Center”, https://kapwork.com/grow/directory/datacenters/google-michigan-city-data-center-in-dc_609dffcc4ee0, materially updated Nov 3, 2026.

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