Saline Township, Washtenaw County, MI
The Barn (Saline Township campus)
Why this stage: The Michigan Public Service Commission conditionally approved the utility's special contracts to serve the 1,383 MW data center for an Oracle subsidiary in December 2025. The Attorney General has appealed. No record shows the site energized.
- Owner or developer
- Related Digital, with Walbridge as builder
- Oracle Cloud's role
- Future tenant and operator, serving OpenAI
- Link to Oracle Cloud
- “As the future tenant, Oracle will operate the data center once it's delivered and provisioned, outfitting it with the latest technology for our customer, OpenAI.” Oracle blog
- Announced capacity
- 1 GW. “we broke ground on The Barn, a 1GW data center campus in Saline, Michigan.” OpenAI
- Stated timing
- “We look forward to full construction commencing as scheduled in Q1 2026.” Source
| Date | Record | What it shows | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| December 18, 2025 | Grid or utilityMichigan Public Service Commission · Case U-21990 | Approves DTE Electric's special contracts to serve the data center for Green Chile Ventures, an Oracle subsidiary, with DTE responsible for any costs it cannot recover from the customer.Stated capacity: “the 1,383- megawatt (MW) data center in Saline Township”Status: Conditionally approved. Under appeal. | Record |
| January 13, 2026 | Air permitMichigan EGLE · Permit to install, as reported | Air permit for 14 diesel backup generators and a fire pump. These are backup units.Status: Issued, per local news | Record |
| July 17, 2026 | Tax abatementSaline Township Board of Trustees · Industrial facilities tax exemption, Oracle America Cloud Services | The township granted Oracle's requested tax exemption after reversing an earlier, smaller approval.Status: Approved at the full requested amount, per local news | Record |
| August 7, 2026 | Public recordMichigan Department of Attorney General · Appeal of the U-21990 order | The Attorney General asks the court to invalidate the approval and send the contracts back for a full contested case.Status: Pending in the Michigan Court of Appeals | Record |
| Undated | ZoningWashtenaw County Circuit Court, consent judgment with Saline Township | The settlement of the developer's suit allowed industrial use of the site, with 47.5 acres under a conservation easement.Status: Entered October 2025, per local news | Record |
Unverified: not found in online records
- No record shows the substation or any building energized. Oracle said the site delivered no capacity in its quarter ending August 2026.
- The utility approval is under appeal and could be sent back.

