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Reported geography
Source-reported location for Stargate The Barn Campus.
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Source row snapshot
- Operator as published
- OpenAI / Oracle / Related Digital
- Address and locality
- Saline Township · Washtenaw County · Michigan
- Official metro area
- Ann Arbor, MI
- Source-reported status
- under construction
- Provider facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Planned: 1,400 MW (source-reported; boundary not independently verified; MW measure not stated by provider)
- Source freshness
- 14 September 2026
- Location precision
- exact (provider label)
- Compute Atlas confidence label
- reported (provider's classification; not a DataCenterData check)
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-001367
Reported details
Source-reported by Compute Atlas; not independently verified by DataCenterData. Provider wording is kept; long provider notes are shortened and marked …; unknown is not zero; none of these values is totaled, ranked or compared.
- Electric utility
- DTE Energy
- Power source
- Grid
- Cooling
- Closed-loop
- Land area
- 250 acres (source-reported; parcel boundary not established)
- Announced investment
- $16 billion
- Announced jobs
- 450 permanent · 2,500 construction
- Community response
- Provider label: litigation
- AI-use label (provider)
- confirmed
- Announced
- October 2025
Provider notes
Energy. DTE Energy supplies 100% of power using existing resources augmented by a new battery-storage investment financed entirely by the project, so as not to affect other DTE customers' supply or rates (per Related Digital and MPSC review).
Water. Closed-loop cooling system that, per Related Digital, limits daily water use to levels comparable to an office building.
Community. The Saline Township board voted 4-1 to deny the rezoning (Sept 2025); Related Digital sued two days later and a court-approved settlement allowed construction to proceed with ~$14M in community benefits. A resident later filed an Open Meetings Act challenge. At least 19 Michigan municipalities enacted data-center moratoriums afterward.
What the source record says
Status re-check, NO change: independently confirmed 'under_construction' - the Michigan Data Center Tracker (baldorilaw.com/resources/michigan-data-center-tracker, retrieved 2026-09-09) lists 'The Barn' campus in Saline Township as 'Under construction · 2026-04', matching the record. subsidies left empty: no site-specific incentive award was found in any fetched source; Michigan's 2024 statutory data center sales/use tax exemptions may apply but no fetched page ties an award to this site, and the MPSC conditions are ratepayer protections, not subsidies.
Any MW value is reproduced as source-reported context. Its measurement boundary is not established consistently enough for comparison. Unknown is not zero.
Status history supplied by the source
- 2025-10 · source-reported proposed
$16B campus on 250 acres SW of Ann Arbor; township initially voted against rezoning; resolved via lawsuit settlement
- 2026-06-01 · source-reported under construction
Official groundbreaking with Gov. Whitmer; 3 buildings of 550,000 sq ft each; Oracle, OpenAI, Related Digital; first steel beams installed March 2026
Sources and attribution
These sources are listed for the whole row. Unless a figure links to its own source, the provider does not mark which one gave it, so a figure may not appear in every source.
- Oracle and OpenAI start construction on Stargate campus in Saline Township, Michigan — Data Center Dynamics · Data Center Dynamics
- Stargate updates: OpenAI, Oracle building Michigan data center — CNBC · CNBC
- OpenAI, Oracle, and Related Digital Announce Stargate Data Center Site in Michigan · Related Digital
- OpenAI, Oracle, and Related Digital Announce Stargate Data Center Site in Michigan (PR Newswire) · PR Newswire
- A Michigan farm town voted down a giant OpenAI-Oracle data center. Weeks later, construction began · Fortune
- OpenAI, Oracle and Related Digital announce Stargate data center site in Michigan · Related Companies
- MPSC grants expedited approval for DTE contracts with hyperscale data center (Case U-21990) · Citizens Utility Board of Michigan
- MPSC order, Case No. U-21990 — DTE Electric primary supply agreement and energy storage agreement with Green Chile Ventures LLC (a subsidiary of Oracle Corporation) · Michigan Public Service Commission (LARA e-docket)
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.34.1, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID stargate-saline-township-mi. Filtered to data-center records in the 50 U.S. states; selected fields normalized for search and display; DataCenterData directory IDs added. Some locations in this layer are reported by the provider as derived from OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL, https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright) and Epoch AI (CC BY 4.0).
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Recorded information
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Licensed directory listing dcd-dir-001367
Licensed directory row.
Provider notes and the source narrative are printed on this page and are not repeated here.
Identity and relationships
- Provider facility type: data center
Provider facility type.
- AI-use label (provider): confirmed
Compute Atlas classification, not a DataCenterData finding.
Location and precision
- Saline Township, MI · Washtenaw (Exact location)
Roles
- Operator: OpenAI / Oracle / Related Digital
Operator label as published by the provider; no parent company is inferred.
Lifecycle
- Source-stated status: source-reported under construction
Provider status label; not a DataCenterData finding that the facility is operating.
- Announced: October 2025
Provider-reported announcement date.
- Status history: 2025-10 · source-reported proposed
Status history supplied by the source.
- Status history: 2026-06-01 · source-reported under construction
Status history supplied by the source.
Area, acreage and buildings
- Land area: 250 acres (source-reported; parcel boundary not established)
Power capacity
- Reported capacity: Planned: 1,400 MW (source-reported; boundary not independently verified; MW measure not stated by provider)
Reproduced as the page prints it; not ranked or totaled; unknown is not zero.
- Electric utility: DTE Energy
Utility as named by the provider.
- Power source: Grid
Provider label.
Cooling, water, PUE and WUE
- Cooling: Closed-loop
Provider label.
Permits, incentives, jobs and proceedings
- Announced investment: $16 billion
Announced figure; whether it covers one building, a campus or a multi-phase program is not established.
- Announced jobs: 450 permanent · 2,500 construction
Announced figures; whether they cover one building, a campus or a multi-phase program is not established.
- Community response: Provider label: litigation
Compute Atlas characterization, not a DataCenterData assessment.
Sources, dates, limitations and corrections
- Provider update date: 2026-09-14
Provider update date is not a DataCenterData verification date.
Not yet recorded here: Connectivity · Services · Certifications and design ratings · Rack density · Availability · Specification links and contact.
Licensed values: adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak under CC BY 4.0. Source-reported and not independently verified.
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