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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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[–] CrackedLinuxISO@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 month ago

Since this will be a facility owned by a public university, I think the city would see no property tax revenue from this project. So why should a city trade its health and/or morals for a nuclear weapons datacenter and not even get anything out of it?