Detroit colocation: the network is in Southfield, beyond the gigawatt headlines.

How much does colocation cost in Detroit?

Recent quotes we received for Northeast ran $200 to $240 per kW per month for up to 500 kW, falling to $165 to $205 above 1 MW.

The Northeast Region ranges cover Michigan. They are regional planning figures, not a Detroit-specific asking-rent benchmark; price the exact building and network connections before comparing offers.

Smaller deployments cost more per kW. These are recent quotes we received, not a statement that space is available. Cross-connects, remote hands and one-time setup are extra. Operators often give 2–3 free months on a new term. See every region's quote ranges.

Comparing cabinets and cages. For a cabinet or private cage, ask for the total monthly charge and usable power together. Include any cross-connects or metro circuits needed to reach your carriers, and compare those costs at the specific building. See private cage colocation and how power is billed.

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What providers in Detroit post as a list price

Most colocation in Detroit is quoted, not posted. The provider below is the exception: it publishes a monthly price on its own website, and every row links to that page. It is a smaller regional operator. The large operators here do not publish prices at all, so read these as a floor and a sanity check, not as what an enterprise contract lands at.

Each price was read on the provider's own page on the date shown. Usable kW is 80% of the circuit rating, with a redundant A+B pair counted once, and is only worked out where the provider states both amps and volts. "From" is the provider's own word for a starting price. Providers whose networks carry spam or abuse flags are left out whatever their price. A posted price is not availability, and bundles differ in bandwidth and power, so compare the whole row rather than the first column. How power is billed is covered in how colocation power is billed.

Who is actually plugged in across Detroit and Southeast Michigan

A building existing and a building being connected are different facts, and only one of them decides whether your traffic can get where it needs to go cheaply. These figures come from PeeringDB, which the network operators themselves maintain, so every row below links to the building's own public entry.

The most connected buildings here

From PeeringDB, which is maintained by the network operators present in these buildings rather than by the landlords, which is what makes it worth more than a directory. Two limits. Entries are voluntary, so a building showing no networks may be single tenant or may simply never have registered. And a network being present says nothing about whether the building has space, power or a price for you: that is still a call.

Why Detroit is a market at all

Detroit is an automotive and manufacturing market, and its colocation demand looks like that: engineering workloads, plant systems, supplier integration, and the enterprise IT of companies whose headquarters are here. It is a real market with real tenants, and it has been served for two decades by a small group of local and regional operators rather than by the national wholesale names.

The concentration is extreme even by the standards of a secondary market. Nearly half of Southeast Michigan's network presences sit in one building on Northwestern Highway in Southfield, and one operator holds three of the five most connected addresses in the region. Southfield, not Detroit, is the physical center of this market, and a search that starts downtown starts in the wrong place.

What has changed is everything around it. Michigan passed data center tax incentives at the end of 2024 and the hyperscale money arrived immediately. None of it is colocation, and all of it competes with colocation for the same power and the same political goodwill.

What has been announced in Detroit and Southeast Michigan

Announcements are not filings. Nobody has to build what they announce, the figure is the one the developer chose to publish, and the date moves. They are here because megawatts are what a requirement is measured in, and because the size of what is coming changes who will take your call. Every figure below links to a published report that states it, and was checked against at least one other independent report before it was written down.

Announced capacity is collected by hand from trade reporting and company statements, and each figure links to the report it came from. It is never added to a permit count: a permit is a document a jurisdiction issued, an announcement is a plan a company published. Neither is availability.

Announced capacity is collected by hand from trade reporting and company statements, and every figure links to the report it came from and was read in that report before it was written down. It is never added to the interconnection count above: one is a plan a company published, the other is a building a network registered itself into. Neither is availability.

What Stargate actually changed

The Saline Township project is a joint venture involving OpenAI, Oracle and Related Digital on a 250 acre site in Washtenaw County, put at $16 billion. Its 1.4 gigawatts would consume more electricity than a million homes and would make it the largest facility in Michigan. In December 2025 the Michigan Public Service Commission's three commissioners voted unanimously to conditionally approve DTE Energy's contracts to supply that power, and in January 2026 DTE accepted the conditions attached.

The tax argument ran alongside it and is worth knowing because it sets the template every other Michigan township is now working from. Oracle sought a twelve year, 50 percent abatement on real and personal property taxes against a $43 billion valuation it offered for the project. Saline Township ultimately used a $4.8 billion valuation instead, and a consent agreement required the township to approve the project in exchange for a pledge from Related Digital to invest $10 million locally.

None of that is capacity you can buy. It matters to a colocation tenant for one reason: DTE is now contractually committed to a load larger than anything else on its system, and every subsequent interconnection request in Southeast Michigan queues behind that commitment. Ask any operator offering you growth headroom how that headroom sits relative to the Saline contracts.

The rest of the pipeline, and how local it has become

Van Buren Township is weighing a one gigawatt proposal, reported to use as much as 3.6 million gallons of water a day. More than two hundred Lyon Township residents turned out to a meeting about a planned 1.8 million square foot data center. Allen Park postponed a decision on a 26 megawatt project, which is the only figure in this metro at a scale a colocation buyer would recognize, and it is the one the town could not decide on.

That pattern is the market. The very large projects are moving through state level utility regulation while the ordinary ones are getting stuck in township meetings, and the difference is not size so much as who is in the room. If you are being offered space in something unbuilt here, the question is which township, and what happened at its last meeting.

Where the market actually is, submarket by submarket

When this market is right, and when it is the wrong choice

Detroit is the right answer when your business is in Michigan. For an automotive supplier, a manufacturer, a health system or a regional financial services firm that needs low latency to its own plants and offices and a provider that will meet you in person, this market works well and the operators here are used to enterprise-sized deals rather than only hyperscale ones.

It is a reasonable disaster recovery position for a Chicago primary, at 280 miles and a short fiber run, with cheaper space and a genuinely different weather and grid exposure.

It is the wrong choice if you need scale or optionality. There is no wholesale colocation product here, the interconnection market is effectively one road, and DTE's queue now has a 1.4 gigawatt commitment ahead of whatever you ask for. If your requirement is measured in tens of megawatts, the honest comparison is Chicago or Columbus, both of which are close, deeper and further along.