Gaines Township (Grand Rapids area), Kent County, MI
Switch Pyramid campus (former Steelcase Pyramid)
Why this stage: Switch's 2021 Form 10-K says the Switch PYRAMID data center opened in June 2016 with up to 10 MW available and 99% utilization. State air permits and a Renaissance Zone cover the campus. None of these records names Hot Aisle, and all campus figures predate Hot Aisle's October 2023 founding.
- Owner or developer
- Switch, through site entities SUPERNAP Grand Rapids, LLC and MI GRR, LLC
- Hot Aisle's role
- Colocation tenant
- Link to Hot Aisle
- “Located at the Switch Pyramid data center in Grand Rapids, Michigan.” Hot Aisle website, Datacenter Infrastructure page
- Announced capacity
- “Hot Aisle's expansion model begins with relatively small clusters, potentially around half a megawatt and 128 GPUs at a time.” Hot Aisle blog, The Case for Small, Distributed, On-Demand AI Compute
- Stated timing
- “Today, Hot Aisle operates from one location. A July 2026 post says Hot Aisle is at 100% capacity with a queue of customers waiting for MI300X capacity.” Source
| Date | Record | What it shows | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| November 28, 2016 | Air permitMichigan EGLE, Air Quality Division · Permit to Install 112-16 (SRN P0709) | Original permit for 60 emergency engines and belly tanks at the campus. These are backup units.Stated capacity: “60 emergency engines and their associated belly tanks”Status: Issued to SUPERNAP Grand Rapids, LLC. The active permit list now shows revision 112-16A. | Record |
| March 1, 2022 | SEC filingSwitch, Inc. (SEC EDGAR) · Form 10-K for 2021, accession 0001710583-22-000009 | The Switch PYRAMID opened in June 2016 with up to about 220,000 square feet of data center floor and up to 10 MW. Two more campus buildings are planned with up to 100 MW. Pyramid utilization was 99% of available cabinets. Names no tenant.Stated capacity: “have up to 10 MW of 100% renewable power available to the facility”Status: Filed. Switch went private in December 2022 and files no newer reports. | Record |
| August 3, 2022 | Air permitMichigan EGLE, Air Quality Division · Inspection activity report P070964123 | On-site inspection of the Switch facility. Six of the permitted engines were installed, three in 2017 and three in 2020. Notes the site becomes a major NOx source once the 33rd engine is installed.Stated capacity: “Six of the 59 permitted engines have been installed thus far”Status: Compliance | Record |
| November 9, 2022 | SEC filingSwitch, Inc. (SEC EDGAR) · Form 8-K, Q3 2022 results, accession 0001710583-22-000045 | Switch spent $6.1 million in the quarter at the Pyramid Campus on construction and site development for the GRAND RAPIDS 2 data center. The matching 10-Q puts Pyramid Campus utilization at about 96% on September 30, 2022. Names no tenant.Status: Filed | Record |
| May 31, 2023 | Air permitMichigan EGLE, Air Quality Division · Permit to Install 112-16A (SRN P0709) | Permit for 36 diesel emergency engines at 6100 East Paris Avenue, issued to MI GRR, LLC. Six engines were installed in 2017 and 2020; the rest show no install date. These are backup units. Names no tenant.Stated capacity: “Thirty-Six 2,740 kilowatt (kW) diesel-fueled emergency engines”Status: Approved. Listed on EGLE's active permit list. | Record |
| September 3, 2025 | Tax abatementMichigan Strategic Fund (MEDC) · Renaissance Zone CY 2023 legislative report | Lists Switch, Ltd. in Gaines Charter Township, Kent County, with a required investment of $151,190,000, a reported actual investment of $291,052,684 and 43 reported current jobs.Status: Active Renaissance Zone, benefits since January 1, 2017 | Record |
Unverified: not found in online records
- No government or SEC record names Hot Aisle at this campus. The only tie is Hot Aisle's own website.
- Which campus building holds Hot Aisle's servers is not stated.
- Switch's SEC figures end in 2022, before Hot Aisle was founded. No current record shows campus megawatts in use.
- No utility approval or energization record for the campus was found online.
- Township building permits and certificates of occupancy could not be read online.
