Skip to content
Gridcensus

Northeast (MI)

Brownfield

Warren, Macomb, Michigan · DTE Electric Company

Legacy capacity
16
MW

Northeast (MI) is a natural gas plant in Warren, Macomb, Michigan, retired 2023-05-01. Retired generation sites are among the most attractive datacenter redevelopment targets: the existing interconnection was sized for roughly 16 MW of generation, so the grid hookup, transmission rights, and often cooling-water access are already in place — collapsing the speed-to-power timeline versus a greenfield build.

Former use & capacity

Former usenatural gas plant
Site typeretired_plant
Existing capacity16 MW
Retirement date2023-05-01
EIA plant ID#1734

Grid hookup & remediation

Nearest substation0.0 mi
Operator address6401 Eight Mile Rd E., Warren, MI, 48091
Why this site is datacenter-attractive: a natural gas plant of this scale leaves behind a high-capacity grid interconnection that a new load can re-use, frequently shaving years off the interconnection queue. Retired-plant sites also tend to be already zoned for heavy industrial use with established road, rail, and water infrastructure.

Site conditions & market — Macomb County

County-level intelligence for this site's location — the power economics, water, hazard, connectivity, and workforce a developer screens before ever visiting. Assembled from FEMA NRI, BLS QCEW, FCC BDC, USGS water-use, and EIA.

Market & workforce

Total employment (laborshed)305,468
IT / tech employment138
Construction employment17,600
Land value$7,741/acre
Datacenter tax incentiveproperty_tax_exemption

Power economics & interconnection

Commercial power rate8.81¢/kWh
Industrial power rate4.74¢/kWh
Load growth (FERC-714)0.5%

Water & cooling

Water stressLow
Public water supply4.0 MGD
Industrial water use0.0 MGD
Cooling degree days700
Mean annual temp45°F

Hazard, flood & connectivity

FEMA risk index25.0 · Relatively Moderate
Fiber providers7 · 40% served

County-level context — address-level utility offerings and flood zoning vary within the county. Confirm site-specific service with the utility and a Phase I ESA.

Nearby brownfield & retired-generation sites

A proximity screen of other retired-plant, contaminated, and EPA-flagged sites near Northeast (MI) — the environmental neighborhood, ranked by legacy grid capacity.

SiteFormer useLegacy MWDistanceCleanup status
River Rougecoal plant94412.7 mi—
Trenton Channelcoal plant77623.8 mi—
Conners Creeknatural gas plant2757.4 mi—
Wyandottenatural gas plant3017.6 mi—
Slocumoil plant1423.8 mi—

Derived from GridCensus's retired-generator & EPA brownfield dataset. Not a substitute for an ASTM E1527 Phase I environmental radius report.

Get alerts

Track Northeast (MI)

Get an email when its DC-readiness score, available capacity, or interconnection-queue status changes.

No spam. Just the alerts you asked for.

Nearby datacenter candidate sites

Scored candidate sites near Northeast (MI), ranked by DC Readiness.

Candidate sites near Northeast (MI)
SiteTypeStateCountyVoltageCapacityQueue waitScore
Conners CreekBrownfieldMIWayne County—275 MW2.2 yrs69.2
UNKNOWN128399Substation-AdjacentMIMacomb County345 kV600 MW3.8 yrs68.7
UNKNOWN128466Substation-AdjacentMIMacomb County345 kV600 MW3.8 yrs68.0
SENECASubstation-AdjacentMIMacomb County345 kV600 MW3.8 yrs67.8
UNKNOWN128507Substation-AdjacentMIOakland County345 kV600 MW3.8 yrs67.5
UNKNOWN128451Substation-AdjacentMIWayne County230 kV300 MW3.8 yrs67.2
UNKNOWN128512Substation-AdjacentMIMacomb County345 kV600 MW3.8 yrs67.1
BROWNSTOWNSubstation-AdjacentMIWayne County345 kV600 MW3.8 yrs67.0

Nearby internet exchanges

See all datacenter sites in Michigan →

Dataset updated . Screening estimates derived from public data sources.

Brownfield attributes are derived from EIA retired-generator and EPA public data. Existing capacity reflects the retired plant's historical nameplate, not deliverable interconnection for a new load. Confirm reusable interconnection rights, remediation status, and site availability with the utility, ISO, and current owner.

Go deeper than the public screen

Every site and score for Northeast (MI), Warren, Macomb, Michigan is free to browse. Pro adds Watchtower on 25 sites, alerts when new candidate sites, datacenters or interconnection-queue requests appear in your markets, score and capacity history, and CSV export. Enterprise adds team seats, weekly data files for all 147,272 sites, the REST API and an MCP server for AI tools.