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Switch data center in Gaines Township, Michigan

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

Announced 2022, in Kent County. No permit on record yet.

No permit on record yet. First seen Sep 23, 2026.

Where

Gaines Township, Kent County, Michigan.

Exact site not public. Shown at township level.

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Gaines TownshipKent County
Reported capacity
320MW
Planned, as Compute Atlas (Sep 9, 2026) reports it. 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
Switch
The operator, per Compute Atlas. No public record names its general contractor yet. The carriers show here when a record names them.

  • Nearest other build

    Microsoft Gaines Township Data Center

    3.8 miles away

  • Builds in Kent County

    5

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

  • Builds in Michigan

    26

    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 Switch, 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

  • SwitchOperator
  • General contractorNot named yet
  • CarriersNot named yet
  • UtilityNot named yet

Key facts

Stage
Under constructionCompute Atlas · Sep 9, 2026
Reported capacity
320 MWCompute Atlas · Sep 9, 2026
Site area
138 acresKapwork Grow tracker · Nov 2, 2026
Reported investment
$5BKapwork Grow tracker · Nov 2, 2026
Reported jobs
148Kapwork Grow tracker · Nov 2, 2026
Announced
2022Compute Atlas · Sep 9, 2026
Construction start reported
2022Compute Atlas · Sep 9, 2026
Location
Gaines Township, Kent County, MichiganCompute Atlas · Sep 9, 2026
Location precision
Site footprint confirmedKapwork Grow tracker · Nov 2, 2026
Power source
WindKapwork Grow tracker · Nov 2, 2026
AI workload
Mixed use, AI among other workloadsCompute Atlas · Sep 9, 2026
Facility type
ColocationKapwork Grow tracker · Nov 2, 2026
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)Kapwork Grow tracker · Nov 2, 2026

What the public record lacks: the building area, the general contractor's name and the completion date.

Who's involved

Operator
SwitchCompute Atlas · Sep 9, 2026
Utility
Consumers EnergyKapwork Grow tracker · Nov 2, 2026
General contractor
Not named in a public record yet
Carriers
Appear here as the records name them

How far along it is

  1. · Compute Atlas

    Announced

  2. · Compute Atlas

    Construction start

  3. · Kapwork's date

    First seen in the Kapwork Grow tracker

  4. Date not reported · Compute Atlas

    Construction start reported

  5. Date not reported · Compute Atlas

    Reported as announced

  6. Date not reported · Compute Atlas

    Construction start 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 Switch Pyramid Campus under construction?
No permit record shows it yet, so this page prints it as announced. Compute Atlas (Sep 9, 2026) reports it as under construction.
Who is building Switch Pyramid Campus?
Switch is the operator. No public record names the general contractor yet. It shows here the day one does.
Which carriers serve Switch Pyramid Campus?
No public record names them yet. They show here when a filing does.
How do contractors on Switch Pyramid Campus 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 · Kapwork Grow tracker · U.S. Census C30

Where this comes from

What each source reports

  • Compute Atlas: Under construction, 320 MW

Updates

  • Date not reported: Construction start reported. Compute Atlas
  • Date not reported: Reported as announced. Compute Atlas
  • Date not reported: Construction start reported. Compute Atlas
  • Between Aug 15, 2026 and Sep 23, 2026: First seen in the Kapwork Grow tracker. Kapwork's date
  • 2022: Construction start. Compute Atlas
  • 2022: Announced. Compute Atlas

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). 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 building area, the general contractor's name and the completion date.
  • 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, “Switch Pyramid Campus”, https://kapwork.com/grow/directory/datacenters/switch-pyramid-campus-mi-dc_d00f966bcded, materially updated Nov 3, 2026.

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