Das größte Rechenzentrum aller Zeiten wird in Utah zu einem riesigen Problem
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/933687/utah-stratos-project-data-center-kevin-oleary
Das größte Rechenzentrum aller Zeiten wird in Utah zu einem riesigen Problem
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/933687/utah-stratos-project-data-center-kevin-oleary
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This is the part of the AI boom that feels under discussed.
Everyone talks about models and chips, but the physical infrastructure behind them is starting to collide with power grids, water use, land use, and local politics.
AI doesn’t stay “virtual” once you need facilities at this scale.
Why does this feel as hoax to me, „We’re building a $4bn datacenter the ludicrous humongous datacenter to rule all datacenters but it will take us forever to build it, anyway, give ca$h now!“
Can we vote out politicians that support subsidizing data centers? All these Utah voters need to vote for what benefits them.
Also, AI data centers destroys jobs, not create them. With their billions, couldn’t they just install solar on their roof? Hell, take only recycled water. Build better building to shield noise.
Even after all that, it destroys jobs… so what is the benefit for Americans again?
And this problem will continue to escalate as long as data centers exist.
100% Kevin O’Leary just heard „data center“ being thrown around by his other rich friends and decided he was going to make the biggest one. I doubt he even really understands what they’re for or what they do.
oh yea… Utah, bastion of progress
Mr Wonderful is anything but. He’s a lecherous clown and the more people that know it, the better.
tbh building a massive facility that requires millions of gallons of water just to keep the servers cool in the middle of a literal desert is peak tech industry logic.
it’s wild how local residents are constantly told to take shorter showers and let their lawns die, but big tech is allowed to drain the local water supply so they can train an ai to generate slightly worse search results. the priorities are completely backward.
Does the Canadian Kevin know Utah is a desert? And like, running out of water?
These two young women who are organizing against O’Leary’s data center burned him in this Youtube video. https://youtu.be/JDy6UrHittQ?si=Sgb0FD7sCNN9jOI0
Just rename it THE JESUS DATACENTER and it will work very well
Someone might want to look into the thousands of acers Mike Schultz, UT Speaker of the House, bought. Just happens to be in the same general vicinity of this facility.
Kevin O’leary is a POS.
I predict what actually gets built will be a fraction – less than 50% – of what they’ve planned. And probably more like 10%-15%.
This smacks of the Wisconsin Foxconn Scott Walker debacle.
Twice the size of Manhattan + will use more energy than the entire state. Fucking insanity
This data center was also approved by only like three people total. The residents directly impacted by it never knew it was happening until after the fact.
I just love that this little twerp will be dead long before it ever gets finished
//So far, Utah officials have dismissed — and even derided — public outrage.//
When you vote for people who think government is the enemy. Who do you suppose they’ll think is the enemy once they’re in government?
The old saying “money is the root of all evils,” feels really relevant nowadays.
Look into the investigative journalism uncovering years of land purchaes by govt officials
As expected. This is what Republicans do.
Governor Cox doesn’t care about what Utah citizens want. Republicans and Democrats both hate this new datacenter and have all been vocal about not wanting it. Cox doesn’t care.
Fuck Spencer Cox
No shit lol
Isn’t this the back story that played out in Ready Player One? Data Centers ruined the climate and forced everyone into makeshift cities and AI/Video games kept people online? Ignoring the major climate crisis and lining the pockets of corporations? This is real life now?
„Bro, please bro, just one more data center. We can finally make it profitable bro. It’s different this time bro, c’mon bro. The water usage isn’t that bad bro, it’s necessary. If we don’t build it China’s gonna dominate AI bro. We can offset the temperature rise with just a couple billion in revenue and some carbon credits bro. C’mon bro don’t you care about the economy?“
Utah doesn’t have water, the desert is a fragile ecosystem. All data centers are resource sinks. They need to disclose how much resources they use.
But it’s gonna bring in so much tax money that will definitely be paid! And create many thousands of jobs for as long as it runs! It only projected to consume double the states electricity consumption.
Their „elected“ city council told their constituents that showed up in protest to pound sand. Bold move… but expected.
The proposed size of it and other stats don’t make any sense to me. Recently my state has been discussing building one, and I compared the proposed sizes and energy usage. The one proposed in my state would be about 1/60th the size of the one in Utah, but would use 3 gigawatts of electricity vs. 9 gigawatts for Utah. How is that possible? 9 gigawatts also seems extremely low for a data center the size of Washington, D.C.
The whole thing stinks of some kind of scam.
The amount of heat generated by this data center will damage the already taxed ecosystem.
To late now the commissioners and county betrayed the citizens of Utah
The actual reason O’Leary wants the approvals and permits accelerated is because he wants to qualify for the Special immediate 100% Bonus Asset Depreciation that Congress is allowing. But, the project timelines must meet strict timelines.
Lets put something that needs to be cooled 24/7 in the middle of a desert
What could POSSIBLY go wrong
I imagine it looking like Costco in Idiocracy…
Headline reads as if it exists already to trick you all into believing it HAS TO HAPPEN.
„We keep voting for leopards eating faces party and nothing has changed!“ (Things actually got worse)
This is horrible for Utah.
Utah’s political class will do nothing to stop this as they are corrupt and do not give a crap about the condition that the state (economic or environment) will be left in when they leave office. They are in office to make deals to enrich themselves and their pals, nothing more.
What the actual FUCK?!
> he equivalent of about 23 atom bombs worth of energy dumped into this local environment every single day.
We need to get these rich bastards under control. They are literally insane and will kill us all.
Why don’t they build them in Alaska where it’s nice a cold?
Fuck this guy. Narcissist sociopaths get away with too much bullshit like this. People in Utah and neighboring states need to fight this. Energy prices are going to spike and property values are going to tank if they don’t. He chose Utah because he felt they would be the biggest pushovers in the US.
Utah should make an effort to make this data center a huge problem for Kevin O’Leary.
Joseph Smith would not have wanted a big data center like this.
Oleary can fuck off back to Montreal
Remember „The Line“? These guys are going to pay a bunch of Cats and Excavators to move dirt around while collecting investor money until the whole thing collapses and they run off into the sunset without having built anything near what they’re claiming.
It sounds like the Mormons aren’t praying hard enough.
Do not let them build this fucking thing. Do whatever you have to do, Utah, to keep it out!
Dehehe he wanna build the biggest datacenter ever and it’s running on GAS!
Only in America…