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This new process will invalidate the objections already raised by Utahns and require each person to pay $15 to file a new complaint. Opponents claim this move is aimed at skirting public disapproval of the project.
That doesn’t sound problematic at all…
What are these data centers to be used for? People say AI, but that's not specific enough. This shit is surveillance state.
Have you ever played Cyberpunk 2077?
AI for the surveillance state.
Sort of like the center point of skynet.
Soon there will be heavily armed autonomous mechs walking the perimeter shooting everything organic within 100m the property border
Yes its surveillance state being built. Humans will work for Ai in exchange for basic income.
All those shithole Red states are going to get raped by data centers, while the Blue states will force them to pay their way.
It’s not that black and white (or red and blue as the case may be). I live in a blue state that is also selling out to data centers under the guise of “job creation”.
Make them quantify jobs that they are creating
They city council is too busy counting the money they were given to pass this
They do quantify them. There's been counters for that. The people speak out against them at town halls. It still goes up.
Gonna be a cool liminal space in the next 5 years when this inevitably fails and gets abandoned
Assuming that happens, I think we can look to Detroit, starting 50 years ago, for a good example of how awful we are at scaling down and retiring infrastructure at anything approaching this scale. Especially when the state doesn't care to require companies to clean up their mess.
My money is on Ikea acquiring the leftovers to easily set up new locations lol
You mean Costco, à la Idiocracy?
Welcome to Costco, I love you.
The Democratic People's Republic of Costco.
No backlash unless they are dragging the council members out of their homes.
Which honestly needs to happen. Those council members should be fearing for their lives everytime they go outside. But Oleary probably gave them a fat paycheck so they will no longer have to live in the area.
They shouldn't be able to have dinner in peace
They shouldn't be able to have dinner
Why are they building these things in dry hot places, surely the one time real estate cost can’t dwarf all the other issues?
That's long-term thinking. I assume it's like a ponzi scheme: everyone who puts money into something like this thinks they'll cash out before the problems occur.
Why do I feel like the ones left holding the bag are going to be the taxpayers/residents somehow?
It's located on the Ruby Pipeline which will serve as the primary source of energy in the short term. Additionally, the data center being classified as a national security site, is located near the Utah Test and Training Range.
Longer term the facility is looking at nuclear facilities for power and the possibility for a runway and aviation facilities.
The primary customer of this facility will be the United States military.
This. US military is the target market. That people live there, that humans need water to live, and that powering this is going to entirely erase the local agriculture and wider ecosystems are all irrelevant. Deus Vult.~
Those data centers are jam packed with copper, and have far less security per kg than you'd think.
Lots and lots of RAM kicking around too, if you're a little short.
Is it even the type of RAM peasants like me are interested in?
That depends, are you interested in money?
I like money.
I can't believe you like money too. We should hang out.
Nearly 4,000 people have lodged objections to the project being approved, with this pushback leading to contentious public meetings that Lee Perry, the Box Elder county commissioner, said have left him feeling “physically sick” amid alleged death threats and false accusations.
Good
"waaahhh death threats" is the usual retort whenever someone gets deserved criticism. Maybe try not doing things that make your constituents want to kill you?
To be fair, there are a lot of unhinged people who resort to actual death threats for shit that in no way deserves that level of intensity. It's probably one of the big reasons why everyone who's actually smart enough to run a city/state/country is also smart enough not to.
161 km² in commie units
Thanks for the conversion and go fuck yourself for calling the world standard commie
That's astonishing. How many servers will be running in that thing? Billions? Am I missing something?
Zero servers are ever gonna run in this thing, it's just... even more obvious than with all the other fucking absued data center proposals.
Okay. How is Mr Wonderful actually going to pay for this?
High-royalty, low-equity that sounds better than it is.
Wtf would you even want to make something that big.
Thats a huge geographic vulnerability. You could still make huge ones but spread it out.
Greed. That's the entirety of the answer.
Whoever ticks and flicks these data centres is paid with grotesque amounts of money to approve this shit and to deal with the fallout.
