Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer submitted public comment to the Michigan Public Service Commission on Wednesday, formally supporting the multibillion-dollar OpenAI Stargate project that she called the largest business investment in Michigan's history.

For more than half a century, Related Companies has built the communities and infrastructure that keeps our cities growing and resilient. Today, that same spirit of innovation is driving us forward as we begin the largest economic investment in Michigan history — the next-generation data center campus Related Digital is developing in Saline Township for Oracle and OpenAI as part of the previously announced Stargate initiative.

“Today, we won the largest economic project in Michigan history. This transformational new Stargate OpenAI facility, built by Oracle and Related Digital, will create 2,500 good-paying local construction jobs, more than 450 permanent high-skill, high-paying jobs on site, and thousands more in the community while helping us lead the future of advanced manufacturing and technology. I’m grateful to these cutting-edge companies for betting on Michigan, building on our work to compete for and win big projects in next-generation industries from cars and clean energy to semiconductors and batteries. We will continue working together at the state level to win more projects so we can create even more good-paying, local jobs for Michiganders and grow our economy. This investment from Oracle and Related Digital sends a simple message to anyone who wants to build the future—you can build it in Michigan.”

TheGigawatt campus in Saline Township will create more than 2,500 union construction jobs and 2,000 permanent jobs county-wide to support the project

LEED certified design utilizes a closed-loop system for cooling

Initial 184,000 SF building, anchored by CoreWeave as first tenant, will provide 88 MWs of critical IT capacity

Work has officially begun on Related Digital’s $1.2 billion data center in Cheyenne. Prominent local and state figures joined Related CEO Jeff Blau and other partners at the future center’s 113-acre campus for its official groundbreaking ceremony Tuesday.

Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPP Investments) today announced that it is providing funding to construct a 54 MW hyperscale expansion to a data centre in Cambridge, Ontario. 

New York property developer Related Cos., known for its work building Hudson Yards, is betting big on demand for data centers with a new business to invest in the infrastructure for artificial intelligence and hyperscale technology firms.

Related Digital commits a minimum of $500 million to fuel immediate growth and launches an up to $8 billion capital raising effort 

Related Midwest has secured the green light to build a 128-acre quantum computing campus on Chicago’s South Side. 

In November, Applied Digital’sEllendale AI Data Centerin North Dakota marked another month of significant advancements.

Data centers are "the most incredible asset class I've ever seen in my career in real estate," says Jeff Blau, CEO of real estate giant Related Companies.