cross-posted from: https://piefed.blahaj.zone/c/michigan/p/403803/a-small-town-is-fighting-a-1-2-billion-ai-datacenter-for-america-s-nuclear-weapon
Ypsilanti, Michigan has officially decided to fight against the construction of a ‘high-performance computing facility’ that would service a nuclear weapons laboratory 1,500 miles away.
Ypsi is in the Ann Arbor zone. This is otherwise decent real estate. A data center would tank that. I hope the data center loses, but we’ve seen many a city council sell out their constituents for these leviathans.