„Unverantwortlich“: Gegenreaktion, als Utah ein Rechenzentrum genehmigt, das doppelt so groß ist wie Manhattan
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/13/utah-approves-datacenter-backlash
„Unverantwortlich“: Gegenreaktion, als Utah ein Rechenzentrum genehmigt, das doppelt so groß ist wie Manhattan
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/13/utah-approves-datacenter-backlash
33 Kommentare
I don’t know a single Democrat VOTER who is pro data centers.
Seriously why don’t we just stick these all in the ultra-conservative rural areas that voted for em. Texas is absolutely massive. Just start sticking em all there
> Last week, the project was approved by the county’s commissioners, despite thousands of objections lodged by Utah residents
I love living in a country where elected officials don’t give a fuck about what their constituents want
Breathtakingly, obviously corrupt. Journalists and investigators need to follow the money.
The data center itself is horrible, but what really scaring me is that it seems like politicians both local and federal are officially going full Autocrat and are literally ignoring the citizenry with astonishing brazeness and regularity now.
Utah is already dealing with drought issues. These data centers use enormous amounts of water for cooling systems.
The only people in Utah that what this are the politicians that got a sudden influx on campaign donations.
I’m sure they’ll find a way to blame anyone else but Republican elected officials
Guys it’s okay cause the billionaire funding it said if you don’t like it that means you support China
> The proposed project is backed by Kevin O’Leary
Well that tells me all I need to know.
Does Utah have enough water to support a data center like this? I thought Salt Lake was experiencing issues, but not sure where the DC is located and how it relates.
O Leary is the face of evil in textbooks in 50 years
Utah is cold and has lots of water right?
Speaking HYPOTHETICALLY this is the sort of action that would warrant mass sabotage from the community. Imagine if they started doing thing like trespassing after, destroying building materials, vandalism, disabling machinery, all sorts of awful things that would slow down the construction.
“Yes, we poisoned the waters and darkened the sky. But for one brief shining moment, we generated incredible shareholder value.”
If I ever get a time machine, I am doing two things first: Bribing whomever I have to in order to get Hitler into art school and doing the same with the parents of the kids who would grow up to create ChatGPT to encourage them to develop interests in anything else besides technology.
So much effort put into destroying most people’s livelihood. What is the point? At least in the Matrix people had the potential to be happy. They want no economy. Normal people will die while the 1% enjoy their hydroponic strawberries picked by robots.
For those who don’t know, the word backlash means people are complaining yet nothing’s going to stop the building of the datacenter.
This is how things work in the United States.
It will never get built. It is a money laundering operation.
The pop of the AI bubble can’t come fast enough. There’s no way it’s not an investment bubble.
When you literally have Anthropic investing in Nvidia who is in turn investing in Anthropic, there’s no other way it makes sense.
these morons vote people who specifically want to do this shit into office then pikachu face when things like this happen. People are genuinely fucking stupid.
Let’s finally arrest the billionaire law breakers and make them serve prison time in the center of the data center. Forever hearing and enjoying their creation.
They may have approved it, but there are three important questions:
– Will it ever break ground?
– Will any part of it become operational?
– Will it ever be finished?
I wouldn’t be surprised to find out that this is some sort of scam.
Utah didn’t approve shit! Some old fucks who got paid off did.
HOLY SHIT that’s almost as big as some people’s mothers!
I don’t think people truly realize just how big the Stratos project is. 40,000 acres can be seen from space.
It is:
* Two and a half times the size of Manhattan. Fucking Manhattan.
* More than TWO HUNDRED times larger than the current largest NSA data center.
* proposed to have multiple onsite natural gas power plants – not just one, but multiple power plants because it uses more that TWICE the peak power of the entire state of Utah.
* Projected to release as much heat as TWENTY THREE ATOMIC BOMBS every single day.
This project is insanity and makes Skynet in the Terminator movies look like the Dollar Store.
At some point the public is going to start taking a more pro-active (but less socially acceptable) roll with this stuff.
In Utah, they’re going to power it with natural gas. This is so fucking stupid.
Why do they want to build these thirsty mutherfuckers in the middle of a desert?
These data centers consume resources at planetary scale. A Utah State University physics professor said that the proposed Box Elder County data center could release heat equaling „23 atomic bombs“ PER DAY, while possibly raising temperatures throughout the morning and night.
Y’all need to check yourselves. This project could result in a couple dozen long-term jobs for out-of-state employees.
It’s really something how people of a certain political persuasion railed so hard against electric cars because of the strain they would put on the power grid…
Lets keep voting for people who’s motto is „fuck your feelings“.
We’re gonna start seeing eco terrorism gain wind with data center bombings aren’t we?