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Stargate The Barn Campus

Saline Township, Washtenaw County, Michigan · All 6 OpenAI sites · Every OpenAI and Oracle case on our tracker

Under constructionIn litigationAI confirmedRecord updated September 9, 2026

Stargate The Barn Campus is a data center under construction in Saline Township, Michigan (Washtenaw County), operated by OpenAI / Oracle / Related Digital. The public record puts it at announced October 2025, 1.4 GW planned, 250 acres, a reported $16 billion investment. It is or has been the subject of litigation over its siting, permitting, or operation.

Every line on this page traces to a public source listed at the bottom. Where a figure was looked for and not found, the row says so. A blank is never a zero.

What our reporting adds

Our case file documents this site. Settled; project proceeding with community benefits package.

Facility record

Under construction

Operator
OpenAI / Oracle / Related Digital
Facility type
Data center, AI use confirmed
Location
Saline Township, Washtenaw County, MI
Coordinates
42.1740, -83.8063
Power capacity
1.4 GW planned
Land
250 acres
Investment
$16 billion
Announced
October 2025
Utility
DTE Energy
Power source
Grid
Cooling
Closed loop
Water use
Not established from a public source
Jobs
450 permanent; 2,500 construction
Public subsidy
Not established from a public source
Community reception
In litigation
Source confidence
Reported by at least one credible outlet or filing

Timeline from the record

Newest first. Record entries come from the filings and reports the registry cites. Coverage entries are headlines from publisher feeds we monitor daily, linked to the outlet; last checked September 14, 2026.

  1. June 1, 2026
    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 Source: CNBC
  2. October 2025
    Proposed
    $16B campus on 250 acres SW of Ann Arbor; township initially voted against rezoning; resolved via lawsuit settlement Source: Data Center Dynamics

Opposition and litigation at this site

Yes. Stargate The Barn Campus in Saline Township, Washtenaw County, Michigan is or has been the subject of litigation over its siting, permitting, or operation. Settled; project proceeding with community benefits package.

How the community has taken it

Reception is a sourced signal, not an editorial judgment: in litigation means the facility is or has been the subject of a lawsuit related to its siting, permitting, or operation.

Settled; project proceeding with community benefits package. $7 billion, 1.4 gigawatt OpenAI/Oracle data center campus. 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.

Source: Fortune

Power and water

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).

Closed-loop cooling system that, per Related Digital, limits daily water use to levels comparable to an office building.

Notes on the record

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.

What the record does not establish, and the document that would

In every fight on our tracker the decisive fact came out of a public records request. These are the requests for this site.

  • Tax abatements or other public subsidy
Which document closes each gap
Tax abatements or other public subsidy
The abatement, PILOT, or development agreement approved by the county, city, or development authority, and the state's data center sales tax exemption certificate if one was issued.

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Our reporting on this site

Other sites within 30 miles

Distances are between recorded coordinates, many of which are a city or county centroid, so treat them as approximate. Cumulative load on one utility and one aquifer is the question a planning commission rarely asks.

Questions people ask about this site

Is there opposition to the Stargate The Barn Campus in Saline Township?

Yes. Stargate The Barn Campus in Saline Township, Washtenaw County, Michigan is or has been the subject of litigation over its siting, permitting, or operation. Settled; project proceeding with community benefits package.

Has anyone filed a lawsuit over the Stargate The Barn Campus?

Yes. This site is recorded as being in litigation. The case, the court, and the filings we hold are listed on this page under the timeline and the sources.

How much water does Stargate The Barn Campus use?

No water withdrawal figure for Stargate The Barn Campus is on record here. Cooling is recorded as closed_loop, which is the strongest available clue: closed loop and air cooled plant draw far less than evaporative cooling. We leave the number blank rather than estimate one.

Who operates Stargate The Barn Campus, and how big is it?

OpenAI / Oracle / Related Digital is the operator on record. We hold 6 sites for that company across the registry. Capacity on record is 1.4 GW. The site is recorded at 250 acres.

How to cite this page

SueDataCenters.org Data Center Registry, "Stargate The Barn Campus," updated September 9, 2026, https://suedatacenters.org/data-centers/stargate-saline-township-mi.

Facility data from Compute Atlas (E. Kubiak), version 1.32.0 (September 7, 2026), licensed CC BY 4.0, record https://www.compute-atlas.com/facilities/stargate-saline-township-mi, retrieved September 14, 2026.

Corrections with a public source are welcome at the Compute Atlas record or through our contact page. The whole registry is available as CSV and JSON under CC BY 4.0.

Sources for this record

As compiled and cited by Compute Atlas, with our own reporting appended. Archived links are used where the original has moved.

  1. 1.Oracle and OpenAI start construction on Stargate campus in Saline Township, Michigan, Data Center Dynamics · Data Center Dynamics · retrieved July 5, 2026
  2. 2.Stargate updates: OpenAI, Oracle building Michigan data center, CNBC · CNBC · retrieved July 5, 2026
  3. 3.OpenAI, Oracle, and Related Digital Announce Stargate Data Center Site in Michigan · Related Digital · retrieved July 6, 2026
  4. 4.OpenAI, Oracle, and Related Digital Announce Stargate Data Center Site in Michigan (PR Newswire) · PR Newswire · retrieved July 6, 2026
  5. 5.A Michigan farm town voted down a giant OpenAI-Oracle data center. Weeks later, construction began · Fortune · retrieved July 6, 2026
  6. 6.OpenAI, Oracle and Related Digital announce Stargate data center site in Michigan · Related Companies · retrieved September 9, 2026
  7. 7.MPSC grants expedited approval for DTE contracts with hyperscale data center (Case U-21990) · Citizens Utility Board of Michigan · retrieved September 9, 2026
  8. 8.Saline Township v. the $7 Billion Data Center: When the Developer Is the One Who Sues · SueDataCenters.org · retrieved August 28, 2026
  9. 9.Planet Detroit: Saline data center settlement challenge (December 2025) · planetdetroit.org · retrieved August 28, 2026
  10. 10.Planet Detroit: Judge denies data center intervention (February 2026) · planetdetroit.org · retrieved August 28, 2026
  11. 11.Government Technology: Michigan township defends decision on OpenAI data center · govtech.com · retrieved August 28, 2026

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