University of Michigan (“U of M”) as well as Los Alamos National Laboratory (“Los Alamos”) have selected Ypsilanti Township without any input from the Township Board’s elected leadership or Township residents as the future location(s) to construct two data centers, one of which will be owned and operated by Los Alamos whose primary mission is to engage in advanced nuclear weapons research including but not limited to plutonium pit research which is the trigger for nuclear missiles and has also publicly stated that another primary mission of Los Alamos is to continue with the “computational nuclear weapons modeling research” to advance military technology in the United States

neither the Township’s Fire Department nor the Washtenaw County Sheriff’s Office who provides police serves to Ypsilanti Township are structured, staffed and/or funded to respond to incidents involving a “Tier I High Value Target” as presented by Los Alamos in that the proposed facility by Los Alamos would inevitably attract persistent attacks including but not limited to “drone based strikes, cyber-attacks, infrastructure sabotage” that would also pose significant risk to the Township’s local infrastructure including, but not limited to, the YCUA Wastewater Treatment Plant, the YCUA storage tanks located on Bridge Road, the Hydro Electric Dam, the Willow Run Airport, the Detroit Metropolitan Airport, the local roads and electrical grid, and other utilities such as the Nexus Gas Pipeline which traverses across the Township, all of which would become secondary targets greatly magnifying the threat across Ypsilanti Township; 

The labeling of the Township as a “High Risk Zone” would be permanent thereby irreparably harming future generations who wish to live, raise their families and work in Ypsilanti Township;