'We Did Not Invite You': Michigan town erupts over $1.2B Los Alamos AI data center
404 Media · rss · 2026-09-11
A town hall over the University of Michigan and Los Alamos National Laboratory's proposed $1.2 billion, 220,000 sq ft hyperscale data center in Ypsilanti Township collapsed into citizen outrage. Residents cited electricity, water, and noise concerns, plus the facility's ties to nuclear weapons research — LANL conceded some computing would support "nuclear modernization" modeling, and the township attorney called it a potential high-value target. University officials' canned statements and comparisons to OpenAI's $56B project failed to placate the crowd.
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