Locals to U-M: Your $1.2B supercomputer not welcome here

  • Ypsilanti Township officials will vote Tuesday on a resolution to ‘unequivocally oppose’ a new University of Michigan computing center
  • Nuclear weapons research would be conducted at the facility; the township says that is a danger
  • U-M is considering two locations in the township and no decision has been made, according to reports

A southeast Michigan community continues to fight a $1.2 billion supercomputer center planned by the University of Michigan that will be used for nuclear weapons research.

The Ypsilanti Township Board of Trustees scheduled a special meeting at 6 p.m. Tuesday to vote on a resolution “declaring strong opposition” to “siting a nuclear research facility anywhere” in its jurisdiction.

U-M is collaborating with Los Alamos National Laboratory on the project, which calls for a high-performance computing innovation center with facilities for both U-M and Los Alamos…

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