~10 miles from Ann Arbor
Data Center Field Services in Saline, Michigan
Positioned at the center of Michigan's largest data center construction project.
Saline Township is the site of a data center campus being built by Walbridge for Oracle, with OpenAI as the eventual compute customer — widely reported as the largest single construction project in Michigan's history. It's roughly ten minutes from Fieldbench's Ann Arbor base.
Local market context
- The campus is planned as three large data halls under a project labor agreement covering thousands of union tradespeople, with construction underway through 2026 and completion targeted for later in the decade.
- Named trade partners publicly reported on the project include Motor City Electric, Progressive Mechanical, John E. Green, Shaw Electric, Superior Electric Great Lakes, Triangle Electric, and Universal Piping Industries — a large, active base of general and specialty contractors working the site over a multi-year build.
- A project at this scale, over this many years, generates a steady stream of technology-adjacent field work that doesn't fit cleanly under any single trade — temporary site networking, technology punch-list verification, and documentation — which is exactly the work Fieldbench is built to handle.
Frequently asked questions
Are you currently working on the Saline Township data center project?
Not yet in an official capacity — we're a new, local field-services company positioned to support the general contractors, trade partners, and future tenants of this project and others like it. We're not going to claim a relationship with this specific project until one exists.
What kind of work would you do on a project like this?
The kind of work that doesn't belong to any single trade already on site: temporary construction networking for job trailers and site offices, technology punch-list verification during turnover phases, and documentation support as systems come online.
Services
What we handle in Saline
Data Center Remote Hands
Remote hands puts a Fieldbench technician physically inside your cage, suite, or facility to handle the tasks that don't need a full engineering visit but absolutely need a body on site — power cycles, visual checks, port verification, and escalation to our smart hands team when the job needs more than eyes and hands.
Learn more →Data Center Technology Punch-List & Commissioning Support
During data center construction and turnover, there's always a list of small, specific technology items — device verification, labeling, network testing, documentation — that don't require a licensed electrician or a formal commissioning agent, but do need a technician on site to close out. We handle that list.
Learn more →Construction-Site Networking
Large construction projects — especially multi-year data center builds — need working internet and network infrastructure on site well before permanent systems exist. We design, install, and manage temporary networking for job trailers, site offices, and field crews for the life of the project.
Learn more →Point-to-Point Wireless Networking
When running cable across a large site isn't practical — between buildings, across a campus, or to a remote zone of a construction project — a point-to-point wireless link gets reliable connectivity there fast, without waiting on trenching or permanent infrastructure.
Learn more →Need a technician in Saline?
Tell us what you need done and when — we'll confirm scope and get someone scheduled.