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OpenAI data center in Saline Township, Michigan

Updated Nov 3, 2026Sources: Compute Atlas; Kapwork Grow tracker

Announced Oct 2025, in Washtenaw County. No permit on record yet.

No permit on record yet. First seen Sep 23, 2026.

Where

Saline Township, Washtenaw County, Michigan.

Exact site not public. Shown at township level.

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Saline TownshipWashtenaw County
Reported capacity
1,400MW
Planned, as Compute Atlas (Sep 14, 2026) reports it. May be planned, not energised, capacity.
Work it brings
Electrical, mechanical, low-voltage, site, fiber
The trades a data center build hires, from the site work to the last mile of fiber.
Who bills here
OpenAI
The operator, per Compute Atlas. No public record names its general contractor yet. The carriers show here when a record names them.

  • Nearest other build

    U-M / Los Alamos Research Computing Center

    12.9 miles away

  • Builds in Washtenaw County

    2

    Published builds in the Kapwork Grow tracker, this one included. Published Nov 3, 2026.

  • Builds in Michigan

    26

    Proposed, approved, under construction or expanding, this one included. Kapwork Grow tracker, published Nov 3, 2026.

  • U.S. data center construction

    $84.95B a year

    August 2026, seasonally adjusted annual rate, preliminary. Up 73.2% from $49.05B in August 2025; 63.3% of private office construction. U.S. Census Bureau, C30, released Oct 1, 2026.

What this means for you

Same customers, bigger invoices.

The electrical, mechanical and fiber work on this campus bills OpenAI, its GC and the carriers you already know. Certify the invoices behind it, and funders compete to fund them.

An announced or permitted build is not a contract, an open bid or a purchase order.

Who your invoice goes to

  • OpenAIOperator
  • General contractorNot named yet
  • CarriersNot named yet
  • UtilityNot named yet

Key facts

Stage
Under constructionCompute Atlas · Sep 14, 2026
Reported capacity
1400 MWCompute Atlas · Sep 14, 2026
Site area
250 acresKapwork Grow tracker · Nov 2, 2026
Reported investment
$16BKapwork Grow tracker · Nov 2, 2026
Reported jobs
450Kapwork Grow tracker · Nov 2, 2026
Announced
Oct 2025Compute Atlas · Sep 14, 2026
Construction start reported
Jun 1, 2026Compute Atlas · Sep 14, 2026
Location
Saline Township, Washtenaw County, MichiganCompute Atlas · Sep 14, 2026
Location precision
Site footprint confirmedKapwork Grow tracker · Nov 2, 2026
Community response
Local opposition reportedKapwork Grow tracker · Nov 2, 2026
Power source
Grid powerKapwork Grow tracker · Nov 2, 2026
Cooling
Closed loopKapwork Grow tracker · Nov 2, 2026
AI workload
Confirmed AI or machine-learning workloadCompute Atlas · Sep 14, 2026
Facility type
AI data centerKapwork Grow tracker · Nov 2, 2026

What the public record lacks: the building area, the general contractor's name and the completion date.

Who's involved

Operator
OpenAICompute Atlas · Sep 14, 2026
Utility
DTE EnergyKapwork Grow tracker · Nov 2, 2026
General contractor
Not named in a public record yet
Carriers
Appear here as the records name them

How far along it is

  1. · Compute Atlas

    Announced

  2. · Compute Atlas

    Construction start reported

  3. · Kapwork's date

    First seen in the Kapwork Grow tracker

  4. Date not reported · Compute Atlas

    Reported as announced

Dates as reported. Not a bid calendar. A planned date is not evidence that work occurred. Dates marked Kapwork's date come from the tracker's own snapshots, not from the sources.

Questions this page answers

Is Stargate The Barn Campus under construction?
No permit record shows it yet, so this page prints it as announced. Compute Atlas (Sep 14, 2026) reports it as under construction.
Who is building Stargate The Barn Campus?
OpenAI is the operator. No public record names the general contractor yet. It shows here the day one does.
Which carriers serve Stargate The Barn Campus?
No public record names them yet. They show here when a filing does.
How do contractors on Stargate The Barn Campus get paid sooner?
The owner pays the general contractor, and the general contractor pays its subcontractors. Once your customer approves your invoice, certify it with Kapwork. Funders compete to fund it, so you don't wait for the payment date. Free for businesses. Kapwork doesn't lend and doesn't contact your customer.

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Sources, updates and data

Compute Atlas · Kapwork Grow tracker · U.S. Census C30

Where this comes from

What each source reports

  • Compute Atlas: Under construction, 1,400 MW

Updates

  • Date not reported: Reported as announced. Compute Atlas
  • Between Aug 15, 2026 and Sep 23, 2026: First seen in the Kapwork Grow tracker. Kapwork's date
  • Jun 1, 2026: Construction start reported. Compute Atlas
  • Oct 2025: Announced. Compute Atlas

Limitations and interpretation

  • This record is the Kapwork Grow tracker's merged view of a facility, from the tracker snapshot built 2026-11-02. Facts tagged KW are the tracker's resolved values; the per-source rows it was merged from are listed under Sources and on the tracker record.
  • Sources on this record: Compute Atlas: Kubiak, E. (2026). Compute Atlas [Data set]. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22284476 (CC BY 4.0). Every source is licensed for commercial use with attribution.
  • An announced or permitted build is not a contract, an open bid or a purchase order.
  • Capacity figures are as reported by the cited sources and may describe planned rather than energised capacity.

“Not reported” means missing information, not zero. Completed and withdrawn records can remain available as historical records.

Nearest build: Haversine great-circle distance on the tracker latitude and longitude, in statute miles, rounded to 0.1. First-seen dates: first_seen: the earliest committed snapshot of data/dcfo.sqlite holding any of the facility's source keys (source:source_id), narrowed to the nightly run day by the alert sender's facility_new events when they are available. status_first_seen: the start of the unbroken run of snapshots, ending at this one, in which a facility sharing a source key had the current status, narrowed by the latest status_changed event to that status. Dates are Kapwork's, not the sources'.

What we don't know yet

  • The building area, the general contractor's name and the completion date.
  • The carriers that serve the campus.
  • How the operator and its GC pay their contractors: portal, terms, days to pay.

Spot an error? Tell us

Cite: Kapwork Grow, “Stargate The Barn Campus”, https://kapwork.com/grow/directory/datacenters/stargate-the-barn-campus-mi-dc_42ec31d60a7e, materially updated Nov 3, 2026.

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