Ypsilanti Twp asks utilities authority to impose immediate 12-month moratorium on water, sewer services for data centers

Via The Mid­west­ern­er:

In an unan­i­mous vote Tues­day night, the Ypsi­lan­ti Town­ship Board of Trustees passed Res­o­lu­tion 2026-08, for­mal­ly request­ing that the Ypsi­lan­ti Com­mu­ni­ty Util­i­ties Author­i­ty impose an imme­di­ate 12-month mora­to­ri­um on water and sew­er ser­vices for data cen­ters, AI com­put­ing facil­i­ties, and high-per­for­mance com­put­ing sites.

If the YCUA’s com­mis­sion­ers agree, the mora­to­ri­um would include the con­tro­ver­sial $1.25 bil­lion Uni­ver­si­ty of Michi­gan and Los Alam­os Nation­al Lab­o­ra­to­ry data cen­ter project.

[…] Pro­ject­ed to use up to 500,000–650,000 gal­lons of water per day for evap­o­ra­tive cool­ing, offi­cials are now urg­ing the util­i­ty to review the cumu­la­tive impacts of high-vol­ume water users, includ­ing the UM-Los Alam­os facil­i­ty.

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