Bei einem umstrittenen Treffen stimmt Box Elder County einem riesigen Rechenzentrumsprojekt zu, das von einem prominenten Investor unterstützt wird | Bei Vollausbau wird der Rechenzentrumscampus mehr als doppelt so viel Strom verbrauchen wie der gesamte Bundesstaat Utah.
https://www.sltrib.com/news/2026/05/04/utah-data-center-final-vote-box/
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This is obscene.
> After delaying its decision by a week, the three-member Box Elder County Commission voted unanimously Monday to approve the massive energy and data campus backed by Utah’s Military Installation Development Authority and celebrity investor Kevin O’Leary.
Three assholes and Kevin O’Leary, King Asshole himself, just fucked the people living there.
> “For hell’s sakes, grow up,” Commissioner Boyd Bingham said to the raucous crowd. “This is beyond a joke.” Moments later, the commissioners left the room, saying the meeting would continue virtually.
> “Shame!” the crowd chanted in unison after the commissioners left. Those chants continued after commissioners cast their final votes.
„Grow up“ Boyd Bingham says under his breath as he runs away from the people he’s supposed to work for like a coward.
Fuck Kevin O’Leary.
„We need to stop destroying the environment.“
„Okay, but hear me out. What if instead, we destroy the environment *more*?“
The will of the voters.
This will likely escalate
Why are we beholden to these companies get out from under them already!
Now climate change doesn’t matter
You get the government you deserve.
Data centers will be manned by a dozen people, all specialists, and not by locals.
Wonder what percentage increase of searches for „how to make…“ will be in that county during construction?
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Look up their election results. Basically blood red by 75% or more on every ballot item.
Summon the ELFs!
It’s Utah. The state voted to legalize pot but the legislature said „mmmm… nah“ and then made up their own medical-use-only law that’s extremely restrictive. The LDS church controls everything, and you better shut up & fall in line with whatever the Elder says. Wonder how much this decision cost the investors.
The US is going straight for a repeat of the 1929 crash and the dustbowl. Have fun, it’s too bad the American people were wholly incapable of making better decisions. They weren’t capable then and they aren’t capable now, so I guess nothing’s changed. Yes a lot of history happened and it should have been a warning but again, an incapable people will never make use of historic warnings.
“Our vote today had nothing to do with water or air quality,” Perry said at a news conference. “Those are not issues that the county has any control over,” he added, noting the water rights tied to the project are held by private landowners.”
Wow, from an elected official who has the right to voice these issues to the county
Is this the same story that was posted in the last few days or is this another state that’s getting a data center that’s gonna use more electricity than the entire fucking state combined?
Trigger as been pulled
How many of those idiots upset there voted for the commissioners? You get what you vote for
No taxation without representation
77% of Box Elder County voted red in 2024. Eat shit lol.
„Grow up“ is right, just directed at the wrong group.
All data centers are resource sinks. We don’t necessarily have the resources nor the data infrastructure to scale up consumption.
Years ago I saw the 007 movie and how they were bidding fresh water resources and abusing it. I told people that we ill see this one day and I got laughed at.
Who’s laughing now?!?😢
of course it’s Kevin O’Leary.
It’s possible this project may see some delays…….
This whole shitshow will end once the debt payments on the data centers comes due.
Yeah, AI tools are insanely powerful, but the real cost is like thousands of dollars per day per user. And it still requires a competent (read: high salaried) user to really get value out of it.
It’s a matter of time before all the boilerplate bullshit you can generate with it becomes freely available online, along with free code generators created by AI. That’s not even considering that Chinese AI will find it’s way here, along with a bunch of other knock offs, probably built using Claude.
Prognosis – $2-3 trillion wiped out in about a year or two, and then a bunch of these data centers abandoned mid build.
Nah….this is a leopards ate my face situation…just like pretty much the whole USA.
elections have consequences. when you vote for assholes that protect and defend a felon, and child rape…well, those assholes tend to do what they always do…fuck shit up. nothing new. and, people refuse to learn.
>Three assholes and Kevin O’Leary, King Asshole himself, just fucked the people living there.
They’re doing what is very predictable for their party.
you get what you vote for…here’s a map of that county
>Is Box Elder County a political battleground? Across all types of political contests in Box Elder County, including state, local and presidential elections, races come within five percentage points 0% of the time.
https://bestneighborhood.org/conservative-vs-liberal-map-box-elder-county-ut/
out of 28,000 registered voters, 20,000 are registered republican.](chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://vote.utah.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/P24_BoxElder.pdf)
Data centers = Mako reactors
O’Leary = President Shinra
The community needs to fight like hell
That’s just one of the many data centers they’re trying to build there. It doesn’t include all the water usage in a drought ridden state either
Profits over people wins again (sigh).
Lol. Guaranteed it’s going to sabotaged.
This shit ain’t getting built. 9.9GW??? That’s pure fantasy. No one’s even built a full 1GW Datacenter yet. Oracle is going broke building Stargate in TX for OpenAI. This is just a way for rich people to fleece the government and other rich people
They are taking water that doesn’t belong to them or anyone else exclusively. I don’t know what the answer is but finding a way to stop them before their tentacles leave us without power and water.
I’m sure they will be open to selling it back to us.
Three dudes. Three
As a person who would benefit directly and to a very large scale due to data center construction I wholeheartedly say “FUCK DATA CENTERS.”
Make ‚em build their own power plants and drill their own wells.
>“We need to realize and remember that everybody has property rights,” Commissioner Tyler Vincent said, “and that they can do what they would like to do with their property.”
No, actually, that’s not how that works. We live in a society, and we regularly define all sorts of things that you’re absolutely not allowed to do on your property.
People need to disrupt and sabotage the construction as much as possible. Dont let these rich scumbags win and ruin our communities. Its Us v. Them. And the ants outnumber the grasshoppers.
Wait till we get our utility bills.
The gondola is stupid too
Eat the rich
I wonder how much these men will benefit from this, you know financially. Similarly, I wonder how much these men might’ve gotten directly paid to approve this.
Jobs program for their supporters.