Overview
- Developers held an official groundbreaking on June 1 for the Stargate campus in Saline Township and say construction began months earlier with the exterior of one 550,000-square-foot building nearly complete.
- The project is a $16 billion, roughly 1-gigawatt campus on 250 acres made up of three single-story buildings that Related Digital is developing for partners including OpenAI and Oracle.
- Project leaders and Michigan officials highlight a closed-loop air-cooling system designed to cut water use and say the site will support AI research, education and cloud services.
- Developers have promoted large local benefits such as thousands of union construction jobs, recurring school payments and community investments, but several specific figures are reported by a single outlet and remain less independently verified.
- The build has split the community, producing protests, threats and the resignation of a township official, and it ties back to the Stargate program first announced at a White House event in January 2025 as part of a broader U.S. AI infrastructure push.