The University of Michigan announced Tuesday that it has chosen the 144-acre Textile Road site as its preferred location for the research computing center in collaboration with Los Alamos National Laboratory. The $1.25 billion facility will pair an academic computing center for U-M researchers with a federal computing center supporting Los Alamos’ work, which includes nuclear stewardship modeling. University officials say the center will use only about 10% of the electricity required by a typical hyperscale commercial data center. The decision effectively ends consideration of the WIllow Run alternative site that Ypsilanti Township officials pushed for. An Ypsilanti Township community town hall is scheduled for Sept. 9 — the third public session on the project in the past year, and the first since the site decision.