The Stratos artificial intelligence datacenter footprint will cover more than 40,000 acres (62 sq miles) over three sites in Box Elder county in north-western Utah. The facility will require about 9GW of power, which is more than the entire state of Utah currently consumes, and suck up a significant amount of water in an area that has been hit by severe drought in recent years.
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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.
the weird thing is, what’s gonna happen with all these data centers when they can’t make money from their LLMs?
I hope that shit bag kevin oleary shits himself from crying so hard.
Can we finally call them machine cities? And we’re losing the war against the machines, by the way.
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?
No.
That depends, are you interested in money?
I like money.
I can’t believe you like money too. We should hang out.
Why are they building these things in dry hot places, surely the one time real estate cost can’t dwarf all the other issues?
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.
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.
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?
No.
Apparently this will show the Chinese! Is this all about who has the biggest dong?
No, it’s about who has the MOST dong, and that’s obviously Vietnam.
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.
