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If This AI Data Center Leaves Early, It Could Owe $2 Billion

The Cost Of AI states: Michigan's regulators approved, with conditions, DTE Electric's contract for a ~1.4 GW data center for Oracle and OpenAI in Saline Township (Dec 18, 2025, case U-21990). The data center pays for at least 80% of the power it signed up for, used or not, for at least 19 years. If it shuts down early, it owes up to 10 years of those payments, which DTE's filing puts at about $2.26 billion. Anything left over, DTE covers, not its other customers. That's an exit fee.[1]

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