--- title: "Stargate Michigan / The Barn (Related Digital; Oracle; OpenAI tenant), Saline Township, Michigan, US — campus ledger — The AI Compute Race — DRYBURGH · The Compute Economy" source: https://dryburgh.com/vol1/ledger/stargate-michigan-the-barn description: "Stargate Michigan / The Barn: never dated. 0 MW evidenced of 988 MW announced or estimated, end of August 2026 reading; no dated promise." --- # Stargate Michigan / The Barn (Related Digital; Oracle; OpenAI tenant), Saline Township, Michigan, US Related Digital; Oracle; OpenAI tenant Stargate Michigan / The Barn (Related Digital, Oracle and OpenAI tenant; Saline Township, Michigan, US) has no dated promise on the record; at the end-of-August 2026 reading the public record evidences 0 MW of IT load against 988 MW announced or estimated. The book’s verdict: never dated. From *The AI Compute Race*. [Read the book](https://dryburgh.com/vol1#buy) Download this campus: [CSV](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/data/ledger-stargate-michigan-the-barn.csv) · [JSON](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/data/ledger-stargate-michigan-the-barn.json) Announced or estimated (IT load) 988 MW Evidenced power (IT load), end of August 2026 0 MW The book’s verdict Never dated The ledger’s reading is the end of August 2026: the promises and the states as they stood then. Each row’s evidence carries its own date, printed on it. The promise and the record, on one line. The book’s verdict: **Never dated**. - Evidence read 29 August 2026 - Today Nov 2026 **0 MW** evidenced at the end-of-August 2026 reading, of 988 MW announced or estimated (0%). ## The announcement **Announced or estimated capacity (IT load):** 988 MW **Where the announcement was read:** [epoch.ai](https://epoch.ai/data/ai-data-centers/directory/openai-stargate-michigan) **When it was read:** 28 August 2026 ## The promise **What was promised:** none ## At the close of the record **Evidenced power (IT load), end of August 2026:** 0 MW **Where the evidence was read:** not on file **When it was read:** 29 August 2026 **The book’s verdict:** Never dated ## The book’s note The announcement dated the start of construction (early 2026), not first power or operations; the August 2026 compilation’s table of promised dates (row 36) assigns no clock. 988 MW is Epoch’s estimate against OpenAI’s 1 GW. The August 2026 compilation records 0 publicly verified and names no source for the zero. The Michigan Public Service Commission’s order of 18 December 2025 (Case U-21990) records DTE’s filed schedule for the customer’s load, from January 2027 to full load by December 2027 with a twelve-month delay allowed; a utility’s filed load schedule is the customer’s contract and not the builder’s promise, so the row stays never dated (25 October 2026). ## Also **Who is involved:** - developer [Related Digital](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/parties/related-digital) - operator [Oracle](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/parties/oracle) - tenant [OpenAI](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/parties/openai) ## Filings that bear on it - [Michigan Public Service Commission, order in Case No. U-21990, DTE Electric Company’s application for approval of special contracts with Green Chile Ventures LLC, 18 December 2025](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/filings/mpsc-u21990-dec25) Michigan’s utility commission conditionally approved on 18 December 2025 DTE Electric’s contracts to serve Oracle’s Green Chile Ventures at a 1.383-gigawatt data center in Saline Township, whose firm load DTE is to shed before other customers’ in an emergency. - [RD Michigan Property Owner I LLC, Feldkamp Siblings LLC, Dennis and Lynn Ellen Finkbeiner, Wilkin Farm Properties I LLC and Dennis C. and Alice M. Wilkin v. Saline Township, consent judgment, Washtenaw County Circuit Court, Civil Action 2025-001577-CZ, entered 15 October 2025 before Hon. Julia B. Owdziej](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/filings/saline-consent-judgment-oct25) A Michigan court’s consent judgment of 15 October 2025 approved the final site plan for a data center on about 575 acres in Saline Township, capped its sound at 55 decibels and gave third parties no cause of action. - [Saline Township, Washtenaw County, Michigan, minutes of the Special Meeting of the Township Board and Planning Commission of 1 October 2025, with the Regular Meeting minutes of 15 October 2025](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/filings/saline-minutes-oct25) Saline Township’s board, after a closed session with its attorneys, voted 4 to 1 on 1 October 2025 to try to settle the data center lawsuit, its attorney later saying the board was not in favor of the project. ## Campuses near it in the ledger - [Stargate Doña Ana / Project Jupiter](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/ledger/stargate-dona-ana-project-jupiter) shares 2 parties - [Stargate Shackelford / Frontier](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/ledger/stargate-shackelford-frontier) shares 2 parties - [Stargate UAE](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/ledger/stargate-uae) shares 2 parties - [Stargate Port Washington / Lighthouse](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/ledger/stargate-port-washington-lighthouse) shares 2 parties - [Stargate Abilene](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/ledger/stargate-abilene) shares 2 parties - [PORTS-Pike](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/ledger/ports-pike) shares a party ## Questions about this campus **Is Stargate Michigan / The Barn energized?:** Stargate Michigan / The Barn (Related Digital, Oracle and OpenAI tenant; Saline Township, Michigan, US) has no dated promise on the record; at the end-of-August 2026 reading the public record evidences 0 MW of IT load against 988 MW announced or estimated. The book’s verdict: never dated. **When was Stargate Michigan / The Barn promised to be energized?:** The record holds no dated promise for Stargate Michigan / The Barn. **Who is building Stargate Michigan / The Barn?:** Related Digital (developer), Oracle (operator), OpenAI (tenant). - [Tests](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/tests) - [Scorecard](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/scorecard) - [Data](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/data/releases) - [Chapter by chapter](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/companion) - [The record at a glance](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/observatory) - [The machine](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/machine) - [One campus, four futures](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/hyperion) - [Glossary](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary) - [People](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/people) - [Sources](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/sources) - [Notes](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/notes) - [Where the book was wrong](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/corrections) - [Where its sources were wrong](https://dryburgh.com/corrections?book=vol1) - [The Paper](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/paper) - [Consent](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/consent) - [Who builds and pays](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/parties) *The AI Compute Race: Five Races, One Machine* is a book by Lee S. 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