OpenAI Stargate Michigan
Saline, Washtenaw County, Michigan
Approximate area
Someone has proposed it. Nothing has been approved and nothing is being built.
Status inferred from agw source doc (Tue, 08 Se). No filing states it in as many words.
- Status
- Proposed (inferred)
- Owner
- Likely Oracle
- Capacity
- 1,400 MW directory claim
- Location known to
- Approximate area
- County
- Washtenaw County
- State
- Michigan
- Electric utility
- Not identified
- Grid operator
- MISO
Location and nearby
OpenAI Stargate Michigan is on record as proposed in Washtenaw County, Michigan. A directory lists its capacity at 1,400 MW; no filing we hold states a figure. 13 other campuses are on record within 25 miles. The nearest is 6.6 mi away, measured between approximate points.
Nearest of each kind: Operating 17.8 mi Under construction 6.9 mi Proposed 6.6 mi
Nearest campuses on record
- 6.6 mi approximate
Stargate Michigan - Building 1
Proposed · Washtenaw County, MI
- 6.9 mi approximate
Under construction · Washtenaw County, MI
- 7.7 mi approximate
Augusta Township data center (Thor Equities)
Rejected · Washtenaw County, MI
- 9.1 mi approximate
Thor Equities Augusta Data Center
Proposed · Washtenaw County, MI
- 11.7 mi approximate
University of Michigan Textile Road Data Center
Proposed · Washtenaw County, MI
- 13.3 mi approximate
Cloverleaf Infrastructure Data Center
Rejected · Monroe County, MI
What is on record
Owner
Likely Oracle
A tracker names this operator and cites a source we have not read ourselves, so it is not traced to a record.
What the signal was
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cited document names the operator
oracle
Source cited by AI GridWatch for OpenAI Stargate Michigan: https://www.related-digital.com/michigan · Aug 14, 2026
Filed by: Oracle
Sources name more than one company here: OpenAI, Oracle. That usually means a building with tenants. No source we hold says which is the landlord, so we do not guess.
- Capacity
- 1,400 MW as reported by dce, not from a filing
- Diesel generators
- No air permit found in the records we collect
- Water
- Not collected. State water withdrawal permits are not in this build.
- Electric utility
- More than one utility serves this county, and no filing we hold names which one
- Also recorded as
- Oracle · Related Digital/Open AI/Oracle · Stargate Michigan (Saline Township)
How the status changed
- Proposed Aug 14, 2026 inferred
AI GridWatch stage/outcome: under construction|; source press
Source cited by AI GridWatch for OpenAI Stargate Michigan: https://www.related-digital.com/michigan
- Under construction Sep 7, 2026 inferred
DCE status 'under_construction'
About this data
Evidence
Primary record
A government filing, a federal permit, an assessor parcel or the operator’s own page.
Location known to
Approximate area
Approximate. Good enough for a neighbourhood, not for a driveway.
Independent sources
2
cited filing, directory. Directories count once between them, because they copy each other.
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Where this comes from
3 source records back this page. Each row is a document we retrieved and kept, so a claim can be checked against the original.
| Document | Role | Row | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Source cited by AI GridWatch for OpenAI Stargate Michigan: https://www.related-digital.com/michigan US-MI | Context | url=https://www.related-digital.com/michigan | Aug 14, 2026 retrieved by us |
| agw_projects tracker export (AI GridWatch (aigridwatch.com), CC BY 4.0.) US | Context | id=openai-stargate-michigan | Aug 14, 2026 last changed on the server |
| dce tracker export (© DataCentersExposed contributors, datacentersexposed.com, ODbL 1.0. Contains data © OpenStreetMap contributors.) US | Primary | slug=stargate-michigan-saline-township-mi-pg | Sep 7, 2026 last changed on the server |
AI GridWatch (aigridwatch.com), CC BY 4.0. © DataCentersExposed contributors, datacentersexposed.com, ODbL 1.0. Contains data © OpenStreetMap contributors.
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