Weekly Data Center Watch: Local Oversight Expands as Projects Move Forward - The Sun Times News

Township Fights Nuclear Weapons Data Center By Passing a Moratorium on Electrical Infrastructure

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Weekly Data Center Watch: Local Oversight Expands as Projects Move Forward - The Sun Times News

Ypsilanti Township took a new step this week in its response to the University of Michigan’s planned research computing center, while the City of Ypsilanti considered permanent data center rules. In Saline Township, Oracle’s tax abatement moved into state review, communities pressed regulators on a wastewater permit and Related Digital bought a neighboring golf course. Augusta Township’s recall effort also hit a procedural wall. Ypsilanti Townsh…

Michigan township combats nuclear weapons data center by passing ban on new electrical infrastructure — 220,000-square-foot hyperscale project is backed by University of Michigan and the Los Alamos National Laboratory

Many towns, counties, and states have been passing data center moratoriums to delay these projects so that they could study their impact and create mitigations before this infrastructure even before they get off the ground. However, Ypsilanti, Michigan, is taking a different approach to this issue. Instead of putting a moratorium on data centers, the township put a temporary ban on the underlying electrical infrastructure needed to run them. Acc…