„Hyperscale“-Rechenzentrumsprojekt in Utah – das voraussichtlich mehr Strom erzeugen und verbrauchen wird als der gesamte Bundesstaat – steht kurz vor der endgültigen Genehmigung
https://www.sltrib.com/news/2026/04/25/hyperscale-data-center-may-be/
„Hyperscale“-Rechenzentrumsprojekt in Utah – das voraussichtlich mehr Strom erzeugen und verbrauchen wird als der gesamte Bundesstaat – steht kurz vor der endgültigen Genehmigung
https://www.sltrib.com/news/2026/04/25/hyperscale-data-center-may-be/
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Utah is such a shit state in every way possible.
Good thing they have a ton of water in the great salt lake… what it’s empty well they get lots of snow…. What the snow pack has been historically low for multiple years…. They’re cooked if they build it
Don’t they already have a giant NSA facility there? I wonder if this has any relation to that
How long before enough is enough?
And I’m sure the substations that will need to be built, costing hundreds of millions of dollars, will get spread across all customers.
i dont get it.. Utah doesn’t value drinking water?
That O’Leary guy is a tool.
consume more power than the entire state. just read that again.
Mike Lee has entered the conversation to spread his bum cheeks MAGA wide
I just hope that when the government asks the people to ration their water and power the people have the appropriate response and Kevin gets to be on the receiving end of that as well.
Thank God. I was worried I wouldn’t be able to keep asking AI to put my 15 year old cat in a quicineara dress.
Why don’t they build the paused data center projects already planned before approving more?
Is he wearing two watches in the pic? What a dweeb
No way this manifests in reality, between the realities of construction lead times and limited labor things will be delayed until the bubble pops
How are Mormons so fucking weird about literally everything but they’re okay with *this?* 😂
Have fun with that, Utah.
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What a dumb project and what a flim flam man.
Go for it Utah, enjoy the 0 tax revenue and extreme pollution this gas guzzler will generate all so grok can make more child porn.
Build first, figure out resources later. What could go wrong
When are we going to do something to take our country back from the Epstine class?
And Utah tax payers will pay for the infrastructure.
This is the apocalypse the Mormons have been preparing for. Those LDS food and water stores are going to come in handy when the entire state is a dust bowl.
The people don’t have to allow it if they don’t want it.
Don’t forget to turn off the light when you leave a room to conserve energy.
While there’s one being built in a city very near where I live, my town just put a complete moratorium on ai data centers and I love our mayor and board members for it
Just waiting for the Utah threads to whine about their power bill going up and not having any water.
Wait, so this is why they are wanting that nuclear power plant in the same area?!
I read a headline like this, and all I can think is *”How are there no rules or regulations in place that automatically result in the immediate disqualification and imprisonment of government officials who sign off on these kinds of reckless, stupid deals?”*
I really can’t believe we don’t have a common sense clause. If you are signing a vote in favor of a policy that quite literally exceeds the grid output of the entire state, then you should be deemed not fit for office due to an unsound mind and be permanently barred and restricted from both voting or running for office ever again. There is absolutely no way your constituents are in favor of this either, so you are not only failing to govern, you are failing to represent the people and endangering the grid itself.
How have we been a country for this long without basically any safeguards in place against this type of fuckery?
Hmmm GSL is in a water crisis. Shouldn’t the government do an impact study? Or should we just pray for rain as Governor Cox suggested?
I remember watching movings growing up in the 90s and 2000s. I couldnt imagine why the bad guys would go around blowing up pipelines, targeting random famous or rich people, introducing a virus or getting rid of a local population. etc etc.
but i turn around and read this article and I understand now why „terrorists“ attack water supply or power infrastructure to those innocent buildings with innocent workers.
Good luck Utah.
Bit you can’t get alcohol on Sundays and that’s why I don’t trust religious folks to make common sense decisions.
All this just to tell us the answer is ’42‘.
Red states stay getting screwed lmao
Global warming was a real issue right up until they needed more data centers.
For everyone complaining about this think of all the new jobs created, those 3 roles will totally make up for some minor inconveniences…such as less water
There goes the water table!
Fuck me. I’ve lived in Utah the past 20 years and all I can say is I can’t wait to leave. And this kind of idiocy is the reason why. I mean, we have a governor who tells people to pray for rain while signing off on the kinds of projects that fuck the environment and waste resources. I’m so sick of it that I want to eat glass and bang my head on the pavement just to feel something other than pure disgust and contempt.
Wait it will also generate more power than entire state?
Where do they plan to get the water to cool it?
The power of the sun in the palm of my hand!
And the pollution in yours.
Tripling the energy usage of the entire state, the increase powered by fucking fossil fuel, to create just 2,000 jobs.
What a comically awful economic tradeoff for the state of Utah.
We could have feee energy food and water for all but nah. Where’s the money in actually advancing humanity
Socialize the costs, privatize the profits. Yeeeeeehaaaaa!
Can this bubble just fucking burst already?
More power than a state is not innovation. It’s a red flag. AI isn’t just a software story anymore it’s an energy arms race. Cheap intelligence expensive electricity. The real bottleneck is not models. It’s who can feed them power without breaking the grid.
Building hyperscale data centers in drought-prone heat traps is peak human intelligence: invent the cloud, then forget it still needs water and power.
Remember when companies tried to hit climate goals & now they’re going on gear 10 in reverse?
absolutely disgusting