A 3-person commission in Utah just approved a 9-gigawatt data center over 1,000+ protesters chanting “Shame.” It uses more power than the entire state. Approval took 4 months, not the usual 5 years. [OC]
by MarkusGrant
A 3-person commission in Utah just approved a 9-gigawatt data center over 1,000+ protesters chanting “Shame.” It uses more power than the entire state. Approval took 4 months, not the usual 5 years. [OC]
by MarkusGrant
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4 months instead of 5 years pretty much writes its own case that 1000 people who can trivially show real monetary damages can bring before the courts.
So, how are they going to power this center? If they don’t self-power, they should be denied.
Georgia is missing Project Sail which just got approved even though the community said no.
1000 people vs how much money?
Being against AI data centers because it uses electricity is like being against a factory for the same reason.
What does “State Legislation passed” mean here?
State legislation in favor of data centers or against them?
What a biased title good lord
Seems like there’s gotta be at least one motivated lunatic in that 1,000+ crowd… Risky move, we’ll see if it pays off I guess.
Idk shit about local and state governments but why do these depts or commissions allow data centers to be approved if the public universally hates them. Like whats in it for them or who they represent?
We can all agree 5 years is a stupid amount of time to get things approved. This is why nothing gets built.
Awesome, Utah is demonstrating true YIMBYism
Good for the commissioners not falling for misinformation.
It’s so interesting when you view this in the wider context of history. At least since the Industrial Revolution and possibly before, large jumps in technology and standard of living are are driven by large jumps in our species’ ability to produce power. are we at another critical crossroads here?
Will this force humanity to massively adopt nuclear?
There is nothing greedier than governments.
They’re trying to put a couple in Mississippi also. And if you want to see the double fuck just check out the water situations happening in Jackson, MS and other places that don’t have the infrastructure to even handle their citizens.
Why would it take 5 years?
The US: A democracy where the people don’t matter
Holy shit ab that power usage
Throw that Canadian jerk “Mr wonderful” out of our country. The rich always win
I don’t think this is the end. Data centers use a lot of water. At least the ones I know anything about. Utah is a fairly dry state. There are places that have two water mains. One is fit to drink. The other is to water your lawn & garden. Utah has droughts. How is this supposed to work?
Download an LLM. We do t need data centers
You can’t shame people that have none.
Why are people against this? We need more AI, not less.
Utahn here. This data sucks and We fucking hate this. Kevin O’Leary is accusing protestors of being CCP agents, bussed in from out of state, etc.
The commissioners fled from their own public panel due to how furious people are. In another they told their population to grow up.
We have literally no water for what they want to do. No exaggeration. We had the worst snowfall ever this last winter and record temps early in march. The trees bloomed a month early for Gods sake.
Its also a SIXTY TWO MILE FACILITY. 38 THOUSAND SQUARE ACRES. Thats bigger than SLC and most of its suburbs.
Hate. Let me tell you how much I’ve come to hate.
More data center hysteria 😂🤦♂️
Does there being a 1,000 protestors mean it should be overruled?
Elder Box County is relatively small at 66,000 people so ~1.5% and most of those people are from outside the county.
Also, the data center will start off at 1.5GW and eventually scale to 9