Ypsilanti Township Calls for Help in U-M Los Alamos Fight - The Sun Times News

'We Will Fight to Our Very Last Breath:' Township Leaders Vow to Fight Nuclear AI Data Center

Board members of a small township in Michigan agreed to “fight to our very last breath” against an AI data center planned in their community. America’s nuclear scientists and the University of Michigan want to build a massive data center in Ypsilanti Township, Michigan. If built, the data center will, among other things, run simulations to help America build nuclear weapons.The residents of Ypsilanti Township overwhelmingly oppose the constructi…

Ypsilanti Township Calls for Help in U-M Los Alamos Fight - The Sun Times News

Meeting Becomes a Flashpoint A regular Ypsilanti Township Board of Trustees meeting became the latest flashpoint in the fight over the proposed University of Michigan and Los Alamos National Laboratory research computing center. The June 16 agenda listed a general legal update from the township attorney. But that update, followed by public comment, quickly turned into a broader discussion about local control, environmental justice, water and sew…