Ypsilanti Township Data Center Panel Discussion Nov 19th

Ypsilanti Township Data Center Panel Discussion Thursday, November 19, 2026 from 6:00pm - 8:00pm at Eastern Michigan University Student Center Ballroom (900 Oakwood St).

No registration required however, 500-person fire capacity will be enforced.
No signs or noise makers will be permitted.

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Elected officials from Ypsilanti Township will be present.
U-M Regents and Officials have been invited.

Panelists

• Wm. Douglas Winters
  • Ypsilanti Township Attorney
• Jay Coghlan
  • Executive Director of Nuclear Watch New Mexico
  • Nuclear Watch New Mexico, a nonprofit organization that watchdogs the Los Alamos National Laboratory and the National Nuclear Security Administration’s (NNSA’s) nation-wide nuclear weapons complex. He has worked successfully against radioactive incineration at the Los Alamos Lab and in Clean Air Act, Freedom of Information Act and National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) lawsuits against the Department of Energy. Among other things, he prompted a 2006 independent study that concluded that plutonium pits (the fissile “triggers” of nuclear weapons) last at least a century, leading to congressional rejections of new-design nuclear weapons and their production. He is now centrally engaged in fighting against the government’s most recent and serious attempt to expand plutonium pit production, the chokepoint of resumed U.S. industrial production of nuclear weapons. As co-plaintiff in a NEPA lawsuit, Nuclear Watch New Mexico forced the NNSA to conduct a nationwide programmatic environmental impact statement on plutonium pit production. Coghlan has also served as a consultant on nuclear disarmament issues to Santa Fe Archbishop John Wester for the last seven years, which led to the formation of the Partnership for a World without Nuclear Weapons composed of the dioceses of Santa Fe, Seattle, Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
• Michelle Martinez
  • Inaugural Director and Lecturer of the Tishman Center for Social Justice and the Environment, University of Michigan
  • Founding member and Executive Director of the Michigan Environmental Justice Coalition
  • School of Environment and Sustainability
• Jamie Stuck
  • State of Michigan Tribal Legislative Liaison

Audience Questions
Questions for the panel can be sent to supervisor.info@ypsitownship.org before the meeting. Cards will be handed out at the meeting for attendees to write their questions. Cards will be collected and read to the panelists as long as time allows. Similar questions may be combined together in one answer. 
Questions not addressed during the meeting will be answered on our website after. 

Parking

206 free parking spaces will be available at the Student Center. First come first serve.  Please carpool if possible.

Livestream
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