A $1.25 billion advanced computing campus with New Mexico ties has drawn the ire of local officials in Washtenaw County, Mich.

The supercomputing center will include a 230,000-square-foot federal research facility, a roughly 50,000-square-foot center for nonclassified research by University of Michigan students and faculty, and a new electrical substation. Construction is expected to begin in 2028.

The project builds on a partnership between the Midwestern university and Los Alamos National Laboratory, which entered into a five-year, $15 million research contract with the school in 2024 to develop advanced computing technologies, including artificial intelligence.

The university has touted the partnership for its potential to create of hundreds of research and construction jobs and move

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