Overview
- Oracle and Related Digital will develop a roughly 2.2-million-square-foot Stargate facility in Saline Township, with officials projecting 2,500 union construction jobs and more than 450 permanent on-site roles plus 1,500 community jobs.
- DTE Energy plans to serve about 1.4 gigawatts for the site using existing transmission capacity, with formal review by the Michigan Public Service Commission still pending.
- State leaders describe the project as the largest one-time investment in Michigan history and cite the region’s construction and tech workforce as a key factor in site selection.
- Project planners say a closed-loop cooling system will avoid additional Great Lakes withdrawals and more than 700 acres will be preserved as farmland, wetlands and forest.
- A Washtenaw County judge approved a settlement resolving a rezoning dispute, and the developer agreed to invest $14 million in local fire services, a community fund and farmland preservation.