Neues KI-Rechenzentrum in Utah wird mehr als doppelt so viel Strom erzeugen und verbrauchen wie der gesamte Bundesstaat verbraucht – Kevin O’Learys 9-Gigawatt-Rechenzentrumscampus in Utah wurde genehmigt
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/kevin-o-learys-9-gw-utah-data-center-campus-approved
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„campus in Box Elder County that could eventually consume 9 GW of power, more than double the state’s current average electricity use of roughly 4 GW,“
Man glad there after me with my smog emission haven forbid we look at the raw material/pollution building this AI data center will take.
Won’t that…. Basically triple the states emissions?
nine gigawatts is fucking insane, utah is gonna melt
My naive hope was that AI would help us with climate modelling and reducing our carbon footprint.
Instead, we are going to get a bigger carbon footprint and a dead internet full of warring state propaganda bots.
Oh, and even more surveillance.
What a dumb way to fail the most important assignment of the century.
That’s truly insane. I work for the largest power consumer in my whole country and we us just under 1 gigawatt. 9 is an I same amount of power.
Can’t wait to use 1 megawatt to know what my cat likes.
As if Shark Tank wasnt enough reason to hate O’Leary,.
>To attract hyperscale cloud operators, MIDA cut the project’s energy use tax from its standard 6% to 0.5% and agreed to rebate 80% of the property tax revenue generated by the development back to O’Leary Digital. Even at those reduced rates, Morris projected $30 million annually for Box Elder County during the initial phase and over $100 million once the campus reaches full capacity.
Awww yeah tax breaks bay-bee here he comes to pay as minimal of his share as possible God bless capitalism
Utah has no water. gg
If the people in the state don’t make sure to stop it by any means, even if they have to go full french revolution mode, then they’re cooked, and likely affect also Colorado, Nevada and Arizona who have their own water issues. Hell, Arizona was going to sue Utah for stealing its water not long ago if I remember right.
All powered by gas. Crazy. That area is gonna have bad air quality
The water required should put the final nail in the Great Salt Lake coffin.
i stand by my theory that these data centers are not strictly for generative AI/the usual kind of AI we see. you don’t use 9 gigawatts of power for something so mundane.
Are they going to build power plants too? I mean, it’s not rocket science if you’ve ever played Command and Conquer. You build power plants first, then the building that takes a massive amount of power.
NATURAL GAS
IS A
FINITE
RESOURCE
It’s good that they’re using renewable forms of electricity to power them 😬 no solar/wind, just gas
This seems… Unsustainable.
These corps are investing in more energy production capacity, right? Right?
Who wants or needs this? Why is America just bending to the whim of like 6 – 8 crazy, money hungry guys.
They plan to use natural gas to power this thing? Are they dense? Not only is this giant data centre going to consume huge amounts of water and energy they’re going to introduce even more pollution onto the air for the power it needs? That project should never be allowed unless they go full renewable energy.
I wonder if these data center will be obsolete as A.I. becomes on premise and local.
Good thing that they aren’t running out of water and snowpack in a massive, prolonged drought.
It’s especially a good thing that the big ol’ Salt Lake of theirs doesn’t emit and spread toxic gasses as it rapidly dries up.
Perfect place for a data center to churn through millions of gallons of public drinking water every day.
At least those data centers will bring thousands of permanent, high paying jobs to boost the local economy, too. No brainier!
I want out of this stupid fucking experiment we call “society.”
All this just to put humans out of jobs.
Mr.wonderful can smd
What a contradicting statement from the developers. „It’s entirely off-grid! We’re just siphoning off an existing natural gas pipeline! But don’t worry, we won’t be using any local’s power; we could even look at feeding power into the grid!“ But you said you were off-grid…
So… if this data center is going to use more power than the entire state, isn’t it just going to join all the other data centers whose construction is stalled due to the fact there’s no power to plug them into?
Generate and consume?
_whisper_ it’ll never be built…
What a great target for civil disobedience when the salt lake dust makes the air unbreathable.
This is dumb. AI isn’t that important and we need to stop prioritizing it over human beings.
This feels like in Simcity when you build the huge expensive technology thing, realise you cant afford to upgrade the electricity grid and need to reload your save or start again
Great headline. Sums up the insanity. 1 thing using twice the power of 100,000 things & 3.5mil people. Anyone not in the Utah government would be a hard no. Monkey wrench gang unite, time to go N
Damn, Utah is dumb af
humanity is jsut so utterly stupid
we have it all, but we ruin everything