Status: Financing Secured / Early Phase 1 Civil Engineering | Location: Saline Township, Washtenaw County, Michigan, United States
Related Digital and Blackstone have officially closed a landmark $16 billion financing package to deliver a transformative 1-gigawatt AI mega-campus in Saline Township, Michigan, marking one of the most ambitious hyperscale computing developments ever undertaken in North America. The project, developed exclusively for Oracle through its strategic infrastructure alliance with OpenAI, has quickly become known internally as “The Barn,” a nickname inspired by the preserved historic red barn that remains at the entrance as a symbolic link between the region’s agricultural legacy and its emerging role in the global AI economy. Designed as a next-generation national compute hub outside India, the campus will feature three massive single-story data centers spanning hundreds of thousands of square feet, purpose-built to support ultra-high-density GPU deployments required for frontier artificial intelligence training and inference workloads. The facilities will integrate advanced optical switching fabrics and high-bandwidth interconnect architectures capable of enabling low-latency communication across enormous AI clusters, effectively functioning as a centralized computational engine for future large language models and advanced reasoning systems. Beyond its technological significance, the development is expected to catalyze regional economic growth, energy infrastructure modernization, and large-scale employment across Michigan’s expanding digital infrastructure sector.
| Field | Value |
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| Project Name | Related Digital Saline Township Campus |
| Location | Saline Township, Washtenaw County, Michigan, United States |
| Status | Financing Secured / Early Phase 1 Civil Engineering |
| Project Type | Megascale Single-Tenant OpenAI Training Factory & AI Core Hub |
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| City Name | Saline |
| Population | About 8,900 |
| Urban Agglomeration | Approximately 18,000 (Saline and nearby urban area) |
| Economic Profile | 🔒 Detailed city intelligence available to subscribers |
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