Ypsilanti Township’s Board of Trustees unanimously approved a six-month moratorium on large electric utility structures, a move that comes one week after the University of Michigan and Los Alamos National Laboratory announced plans for a new supercomputing facility at Bridge and Textile Roads.
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Ypsilanti Township halts utility structures near UofM computing site
Township attorney Doug Winters said the pause is meant to give leaders time to review local land use regulations before construction moves forward.
“It’s for six months, the moratorium; at the same time, we’re going to proceed with due diligence,” Winters said.
The University of Michigan says the planned facility is not a data center, but rather a research-focused facility designed to handle massive scientific and AI-driven computing projects. The moratorium, however, targets the large electric utility infrastructure that would be needed to power a project of that scale…