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A Small Town Is Fighting a $1.2 Billion AI Datacenter for America's Nuclear Weapon Scientists (www.404media.co)
submitted 1 month ago by compostgoblin@piefed.blahaj.zone to c/technology@lemmy.world
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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.

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[–] Zephorah@discuss.online 12 points 1 month ago

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.