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.
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”.
Okay. How is Mr Wonderful actually going to pay for this?
High-royalty, low-equity that sounds better than it is.
Gonna be a cool liminal space in the next 5 years when this inevitably fails and gets abandoned
161 km² in commie units
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.
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.
Remember your LOTO before you snip the wires
Is it even the type of RAM peasants like me are interested in?
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.
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.
This randomly reminds me of when I played a game in a server with mostly Vietnam players and they were constantly complaining how because it wasn’t in their market everything cost massive amounts of dong in the game shop.
Context: the currency Vietnam uses is named Dong.
Who was really driving the boat Kevin?
Why are they building these things in dry hot places, surely the one time real estate cost can’t dwarf all the other issues?
Nobody is thinking this shit through long-term or short.
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.~
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?
E Pluribus UnumPrivatize the gains, Socialize the losses.
Mmmm home sweet home
Because our tax dollars have been bankrolling this whole thing for a while now.
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
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.
Local dude here stopped running for office due to death threats against them and their family… small, semi-rural, conservative town, the most important decision for which is… idk, tbh. Can’t honestly imagine why anyone would threaten someone here.
Which makes me want to run for that position instead. Fuck you people, I don’t have a family to worry about, and I’m not all that worried about dying myself. Solid chance I won’t even know about them since I don’t use social media, and barely check my mail… they’d have to actually act on the threats for it to rise to a level I’d notice, and boy oh boy would I love that. Talk about publicity for the campaign for doing nothing!
Welcome to Costco, I love you.
One of many reasons why I’m looking for work in another state. Or country.
It would be a shame if the builders had to restart their work every day…
Good luck. The data center is classified as a national security site and has the Utah Test and Training Range base nearby.
They’re building it with the intention of military security.
