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The British company Deep Green wants to build a data center in downtown Lansing on the site of two seldom-used municipal parking lots, across the street from a Wendy’s and an oil change place and the Lansing Board of Water and Light’s John F. Dye Water Conditioning Plant.
At 24 megawatts, it would use roughly the same amount of power as a small city.
But the massive amounts of heat that the data center would produce would serve a second function, heating water for a municipal heating system that serves much of Lansing’s downtown, including a General Motors plant, state of Michigan office buildings and Lansing Community College.
The company is billing the project as “a different kind of data center,” and it would be, relative to what’s being proposed and built in the United States.
Lee said the company believes this would be the first data center in the U.S. built to recycle the heat it generates into a municipal heating system.
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