LANSING - The Michigan House Commerce and Tourism Committee on Thursday moved legislation providing some additional tax exemptions to the company Switch in Gaines Township while holding off on two bills that would expand tax exemptions for additional data centers. SB 455 was referred to the House Ways and Means Committee 6-4 with one Democratic member
LANSING - A bill sitting in the House Commerce and Tourism Committee that would exempt data center Switch from additional property taxes is facing opposition from the other data centers in Michigan. The Michigan Data Center Alliance, a coalition of nine Michigan-based companies operating 38 data centers and employing 1,000 residents, said this week it
SOUTHFIELD – 123.Net, Inc., Detroit’s premier network & voice services provider and host of the Detroit Internet Exchange, announced that it is working with Switch to connect and offer new diverse connectivity with dual-fiber entrances into Switch’s Pyramid Campus in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Switch customers now have the option to use 123Net’s connectivity resources at its Pyramid Campus in Grand
GAINES TWP. – The Las Vegas, Nev.-based data storage giant Switch said Thursday that it has opened its West Michigan campus in the iconic pyramid building that once housed the headquarters of Steelcase Inc. The building is designed for up to 1.8 million square feet of data center space, with the first phase, now open,
GRAND RAPIDS - As reported last week by MIBiz.Com, construction is underway at SUPERNAP Michigan, the facility that will be built by data center storage company Switch, which received quick legislative relief from certain taxes toward the end of last year after the company noted its interest in Michigan. The decision to exempt collocated data
GAINES TOWNSHIP - Switch Communications Group LLC has selected Lansing-based The Christman Co. to serve as the general contractor for the company’s data center project at the former Steelcase pyramid building, MiBiz reported Monday. The Las Vegas-based operator of co-located cloud-based data centers plans to invest up to $5 billion into the West Michigan facility,
LAS VEGAS - A Las Vegas, Nev. data center operator said Thursday that its massive planned data center near Grand Rapids would be powered 100 percent by renewable energy. Switch said it had already begun working with the local utility, Consumers Energy, to supply its 2-million-square-foot SUPERNAP data center in Gaines Township with green power.
FERNDALE - Online Tech’s Yan Ness, and head of the Data Center Alliance, will share his views on the tax breaks given last month to Las Vegas-based Switch to woo them to Michigan where the company plans to convert a former Steelcase building into a $5 billion data center. To listen, click on https://soundcloud.com/podcastdetroit/m2-techcast-15-yan-ness?in=podcastdetroit/sets/m2techcast-on-podcastdetroit#t=0:00
LANSING - Governor Rick Snyder last week signed a pair of bills providing sales and use tax exemptions for certain data centers saying they "modernize the structure of Michigan's tax code" by give data centers similar treatment as manufacturing facilities, which better aligns the state with tax laws elsewhere. "Michigan has a long tradition of
DETROIT - MITechNews.Com Editor Mike Brennan, and Technology Century Editor Matt Roush were special guest hosts Saturday on WJR’s Internet Advisor radio show. Brennan and Roush also are co-hosts of M2 (squared) TechCast every Monday at 3 pm on the PodcastDetroit Network. To listen on demand, click on http://internetadvisor.net/wpcontent/uploads/2015/12/Podcast-1548-12-19-15-A.mp3 Also on the show were Online Tech’s
