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Sam Altman went to Michigan last week, stood next to Governor Whitmer in a tent on a former cornfield, and said the quiet part out loud — except this time it wasn't an accident. He was proud of it. OpenAI, Oracle, and Related Digital held a groundbreaking for the $16 billion "Saline Barn" — a 1.65 million-square-foot data center campus near Ann Arbor that's going to run a chunk of OpenAI's Stargate buildout. There was a tent. There were barn-shaped soap dispensers. There was a $10 million check for the local rec center's aquatic facility. And Altman told the Detroit News: "I hope this can be a real template for how we engage with future communities. We want to build data centers in places where they're welcomed, and the community is excited about it." And then, per Truthout's reporting on the same event, he went one further: "We think every community in the country should try to get one of these." Okay. Let's talk about how Saline Township actually became a "template." The Part Before…