A township blocks electrical infrastructure to stall a weapons-research datacenter

Claim

Ypsilanti Township passed a moratorium on electrical infrastructure to stall a $1.2 billion nuclear-weapons-research data center, while cheap energy and land turned an Inner Mongolian city into the hub of China's AI buildout and Ireland began seriously studying nuclear.

Reported metric: $1.2B

Reporting date: 2026-08-23 (not necessarily the event date)

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• Welcome to August 23, 2026 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)