Saline Project Stargate hyperscale AI Data Center

DTE Energy has requested an ex parte” order on the permits from the Michigan Public Service Commission (MPSC) for Saline’s “Project Stargate” $7B hyperscale AI development, by OpenAI, Oracle, and Related Digital.

In short: they want to skip public hearings and due diligence and have MPSC rubber stamp the permits. Because progress.

Attorney General Dana Nessel has formally intervened and requested a contested hearing. MPSC was supposed to make a decision on DTE’s ex parte order on December 5th–but thanks to the AG’s intervention, at the last minute DTE acknowledged that the contract allows the deadline to be extended to December 19th. The MPSC’s next meeting is December 18th.

From the AG’s office: “DTE has spent weeks insisting that December 5 was a do-or-die deadline for the MPSC to approve its secret deal to service a data center that would use as much power as a million households only to come clean that their hidden contract allows for this so-called deadline to be extended to December 19. This manufactured timeline was all a pressure tactic to rush through a heavily redacted contract that – for some reason – DTE does not want my office or the public to see.

“Residents have made clear their opposition to these hidden agreements, and their concerns deserve to be fully heard – not brushed aside. This ‘new’ deadline only became public after my office filed a notice to intervene and is precisely why we need a contested case and full public proceedings. We can’t just take DTE’s word that Michigan ratepayers won’t be left footing the bill for this data center."

This matters to ALL communities battling data centers across the state now, and in the future. We MUST not allow data center developers to set the precedent of skipping public hearings. 

Michigan residents may  submit written public comment on the Saline project, and the developer’s request to expedite the permits up until December 19th.
Public comment can be made:

• online through MPSC’s portal here
• via email at mpscedockets@michigan.gov
• via snail mail to 7109 W. Saginaw Highway, Lansing, MI 48917

Letters and emails must reference case number U-21990.