Data center developer offers $10M in benefits to Oakland County community
Verrus, a California-based data center developer, is proposing a 1.8-million-square-foot data center called Project Flex in Lyon Township, Oakland County, Michigan. The developer is offering $10 million in community benefits to secure the project, which targets Anthropic as its end user.
California-based developer Verrus is actively pursuing the construction of a substantial 1.8-million-square-foot data center, internally dubbed Project Flex, within Lyon Township, located in southwest Oakland County, Michigan. The company aims to attract Anthropic, the developer of the AI model Claude, as the primary end user for this facility.
To facilitate the project's approval and gain community support, Verrus has put forth a significant offer of $10 million in community benefits to the local Oakland County community. This financial incentive is intended to sweeten the deal for the proposed development.