If approved as filed, this would be a bigger increase than the 4.1 percent DTE got approved in its last case; MPSC Staff and the state Attorney General both want the increase cut well below what DTE asked for.
+$12a month, est.
Special contracts for Saline Township data center (Green Chile Ventures / Oracle)
Approved Supply and capacity price, docket U-21990 before the Michigan Public Service Commission.
No residential dollar figure published yet
The filing does not state a typical-bill impact we can verify. We will add one when the commission staff or the consumer advocate publishes it.
What happens next
The decision is final; the new rate takes effect once the order sets a date. How rate cases work.
Fileddate not published
Hearingheld or waived
DecisionDec 18, 2025
On billsdate not published
DTE Electric asked the Michigan Public Service Commission to approve special power supply contracts for the Oracle backed Stargate data center under construction in Saline Township, which needs about 1.4 gigawatts of electricity. The commission approved the contracts on an expedited basis on December 18, 2025, requiring a 19 year minimum term, payment for at least 80 percent of reserved capacity every month, and a rule that DTE track and recover the data center's costs only from the data center itself. The Michigan Attorney General and environmental groups have since appealed the approval, arguing the review moved too fast and that residential customers are not fully protected.
What it means for your bill: The order is meant to keep this one data center's power costs off the bills of regular DTE residential customers, but critics argue the fast, largely ex parte approval process did not fully test that promise.
- Status
- Approved
- Utility
- DTE Electric
- Commission
- Michigan Public Service Commission
- Docket
- U-21990
- Decided
- December 18, 2025
- Data center linked
- Yes. The filing ties part of the cost or the tariff design to data center load. The projects themselves: isadatacentercoming.com.
- Last checked
- August 29, 2026
Common questions
How much will my DTE Electric bill go up?
That has not been published yet; we will add it once the commission staff or the consumer advocate release a figure.
When would the new rates start?
Not yet set. That is decided along with the case, usually as part of the commission's final order.
When is the hearing?
No hearing date is on record for this case.
How do I comment?
The comment period closed once this case was decided; its result is above.
Sources
- MPSC grants expedited approval for DTE contracts with hyperscale data center, Citizens Utility Board of Michigan
- State commission approves DTE contracts Saline Twp. data center, WILX, 2025-12-18
- Environmental groups, Nessel make arguments in appeal of DTE Energy's Saline Township data center contracts, Planet Detroit, 2026-08-12
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Other DTE Electric matters
This is one of the two annual cases that set what a typical DTE household bill looks like; the approved increase was about 58 percent smaller than DTE requested.
+$5a month
This does not change anyone's electric bill by itself; it is a state sales tax break for data center owners, separate from the MPSC cases that set how those same data centers pay for electricity. It applies statewide, regardless of which utility serves the site.
no figure yet
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+$13a month
2
2027 electric rate case
DTE Electric, MI
If approved as filed, this would be a bigger increase than the 4.1 percent DTE got approved in its last case; MPSC Staff and the state Attorney General both want the increase cut well below what DTE asked for.
+$12a month, est.