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Saline Township resident Kathryn Haushalter filed court papers<\/a> Dec. 13 to intervene in an ongoing lawsuit between Saline Township and Related Digital<\/a>, a data center development company, over Stargate<\/a>, a proposed<\/a> $7 billion data center. The development is backed by tech company Oracle<\/a> and OpenAI<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n If constructed, the facility would become the largest data center<\/a> in the United States, spanning 2.2 million square feet across 575 acres of land in Saline Township with an additional 476 acres in neighboring Bridgewater Township. Related Digital sued Saline Township after officials voted to deny<\/a> rezoning the area needed for the project, alleging the decision violated the Michigan Constitution\u2019s ban<\/a> on exclusionary zoning.\u00a0<\/p>\n Haushalter filed a motion to intervene<\/a> in the Washtenaw County Circuit Court<\/a>, challenging\u00a0 an Oct 15. consent judgment<\/a> \u2014 an out-of-court settlement reached between the township Related Digital \u2014 and alleging township officials violated Michigan\u2019s Open Meetings Act<\/a> during the agreement\u2019s approval process.\u00a0<\/p>\n In a statement<\/a>, Haushalter said the Saline Township Council<\/a> violated the act by holding a closed session approval vote on the final settlement language Oct.1.<\/p>\n