A town revolts against a $1.2bn University of Michigan–Los Alamos computing centre
This is the unexpected story I’d keep. The University of Michigan and Los Alamos National Laboratory want to build a $1.2bn hyperscale computing facility in Ypsilanti Township. University representatives pitched cancer research, power-grid modelling, drug discovery and scientific computing. Residents responded with three hours of anger over electricity, water, noise — and the fact that they felt the project had essentially been decided before anyone asked them.
