U-M data center

A Ypsilanti Township resident said the county shouldn't start by asking U-M to relocate the data center — it should oppose it entirely, citing Los Alamos nuclear research ties and opposition she found at the farmers market.

A Ypsilanti Township caller called the data center siting environmental racism and said the solution is not moving it to another community of color but not building it at all.

A Ypsilanti business owner said his community's survey shows 95% opposition to the data center, calling it gentrification, and announced his organization's mobile resource advocacy partnership with the racial equity office.

A West Willow resident living near the possible relocated site asked the board to stop the data center entirely, citing irreversible environmental harm and energy costs falling on lower-income residents.

Said the data center shouldn't exist anywhere — Los Alamos will use 90% of it for nuclear weapons research, and Ypsilanti shouldn't be treated as second-class.

A Tularosa Basin descendant of nuclear test harm, they urged the board to oppose the data center entirely and fund the Continuum of Care plus a dedicated shelter for homeless seniors.

Called the siting in Ypsilanti 'environmental racism' — and said moving it to another Black and brown community is more of the same; the project shouldn't happen at all.

Called the data center a 'blatant act of gentrification' of his neighborhood, citing his own survey showing 95% opposition, and asked commissioners to help stop it.

A West Willow neighbor of the second site, she raised environmental, health and energy-cost concerns and asked the board to stop the project entirely, not just relocate it.