A typical hyperscale AI data center campus—similar to the $16B project planned near Ann Arbor—features multiple warehouse-sized buildings, massive cooling systems, and power infrastructure capable of supplying electricity on the scale of a small city
SALINE TOWNSHIP, Mich. — One of the largest artificial intelligence infrastructure projects in the United States is quietly taking shape just outside Ann Arbor—and it’s already triggering a collision between Big Tech ambition and local reality.
Backed by Oracle Corporation and tied to OpenAI, the proposed data center campus in Saline Township has secured a staggering $16 billion in financing, transforming a stretch of farmland into ground zero for the next phase of the AI economy…