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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: scheduled

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