WASHTENAW COUNTY, MI – Michigan’s largest data center – a $16 billion construction project by developer Related Digital for tech giants Oracle and OpenAI – recently hit a milestone as several of the massive buildings took shape on the site.
Developer Related Digital announced at the end of August that workers from construction company Walbridge had surpassed 1 million work hours on the site.
The project, known as The Barn, began construction last winter, with the first structural steel going up in March and the formal groundbreaking – attended by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Gov. Gretchen Whitmer – on June 1…