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Stargate Michigan - The Barn (Saline Township)

Stargate Michigan - The Barn (Saline Township)

Construction
Confirmed

Jurisdiction: US — Rest of US (composite)

250-acre site off Michigan Avenue, Saline Township, Washtenaw County, Michigan (coordinates approximate); three 550,000 sq ft buildings

Capacity
1,000 MW basis: it load
GPUs (est.)
Capex
$16.0B
Announced
Target operational

Delivery health score

69.5 /100
69.5/100

Methodology prs-v0.1 · computed · trigger: manual

Schedule

90 /100
90/100

Regulatory

70 /100
70/100

Infrastructure

70 /100
70/100

Capital

40 /100
40/100

Why this score — factor breakdown

Each factor below contributed to the current score. Contributions are rubric weights from methodology prs-v0.1; every factor cites the record it is derived from.

Dimension
Factor
Contribution
Cites
Narrative
Capital baseline 40 Stargate Michigan - The Barn (Saline Township) No committed capital evidenced on any entity role — announcement-only anchor region (§B.2.4).
Infrastructure baseline 70 Stargate Michigan - The Barn (Saline Township) No-adverse-evidence infrastructure baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines).
Regulatory baseline 70 Stargate Michigan - The Barn (Saline Township) No-adverse-evidence regulatory baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines).
Schedule baseline 80 Stargate Michigan - The Barn (Saline Township) No-adverse-evidence schedule baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines).
Schedule milestone achieved +5 Announcement Milestone "Announcement" achieved on/ahead of its first announced date (2025-10-30).
Schedule milestone achieved +5 Groundbreaking Milestone "Groundbreaking" achieved on/ahead of its first announced date (2026-06-01).

Milestones

  1. Announcement

    Achieved

    Announcement · Actual:

  2. Groundbreaking

    Achieved

    Groundbreaking · Actual:

  3. Commissioning

    Expected
    1 revision

    Commissioning · Expected:

Constraint observations

No active constraint observations recorded against this project.

Entities & roles

Entity
Role
Ownership
Committed capital
OpenAI
Operator
Oracle
Operator
Blackstone
Investor
Related Digital
Developer
Related Digital
Investor
DTE Energy
Power Supplier
DTE Energy
Utility Provider
PIMCO
Lender
Bank of America
Lender

Sources & citations

Every substantive field on this record is backed by a canonical claim from a cited source document, graded on the E1 (strongest) – E5 (weakest) evidence ladder.

  1. Related · Oct 30, 2025 · backs: actual date, capacity mw

    https://www.related.com/press-releases/2025-10-30/openai-oracle-and-related-digital-announce-stargate-data-center-site

  2. CNBC · Jun 1, 2026 · backs: actual date, capex usd, expected date, status

    https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/01/stargate-project-michigan-live-updates.html

Signals

Recent ingested source documents linked to this project via extracted claims or triage mentions, newest first.

  1. · Related · relevance 0.95

  2. · CNBC · relevance 0.85

  3. · Bridge Michigan · relevance 0.75

  4. · Related · relevance 0.95

  5. Tom's Hardware · relevance 0.90