Eine dreiköpfige Kommission in Utah hat gerade ein 9-Gigawatt-Rechenzentrum genehmigt, über 1.000 Demonstranten riefen „Schande“. Es verbraucht mehr Strom als der gesamte Staat. Die Genehmigung dauerte 4 Monate, nicht die üblichen 5 Jahre. [OC]
Von MarkusGrant
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4 months instead of 5 years pretty much writes its own case that 1000 people who can trivially show real monetary damages can bring before the courts.
So, how are they going to power this center? If they don’t self-power, they should be denied.
Georgia is missing Project Sail which just got approved even though the community said no.
1000 people vs how much money?
What does „State Legislation passed“ mean here?
State legislation in favor of data centers or against them?
What a biased title good lord
Idk shit about local and state governments but why do these depts or commissions allow data centers to be approved if the public universally hates them. Like whats in it for them or who they represent?
We can all agree 5 years is a stupid amount of time to get things approved. This is why nothing gets built.
Awesome, Utah is demonstrating true YIMBYism
It’s so interesting when you view this in the wider context of history. At least since the Industrial Revolution and possibly before, large jumps in technology and standard of living are are driven by large jumps in our species’ ability to produce power. are we at another critical crossroads here?
Will this force humanity to massively adopt nuclear?
They’re trying to put a couple in Mississippi also. And if you want to see the double fuck just check out the water situations happening in Jackson, MS and other places that don’t have the infrastructure to even handle their citizens.
Why would it take 5 years?
The US: A democracy where the people don’t matter
Holy shit ab that power usage
Throw that Canadian jerk “Mr wonderful” out of our country. The rich always win
I don’t think this is the end. Data centers use a lot of water. At least the ones I know anything about. Utah is a fairly dry state. There are places that have two water mains. One is fit to drink. The other is to water your lawn & garden. Utah has droughts. How is this supposed to work?
Download an LLM. We do t need data centers
You can’t shame people that have none.
Utahn here. This data sucks and We fucking hate this. Kevin O’Leary is accusing protestors of being CCP agents, bussed in from out of state, etc.
The commissioners fled from their own public panel due to how furious people are. In another they told their population to grow up.
We have literally no water for what they want to do. No exaggeration. We had the worst snowfall ever this last winter and record temps early in march. The trees bloomed a month early for Gods sake.
Its also a SIXTY TWO MILE FACILITY. 38 THOUSAND SQUARE ACRES. Thats bigger than SLC and most of its suburbs.
Hate. Let me tell you how much I’ve come to hate.
Does there being a 1,000 protestors mean it should be overruled?
Elder Box County is relatively small at 66,000 people so ~1.5% and most of those people are from outside the county.
Also, the data center will start off at 1.5GW and eventually scale to 9
Why not build it in Idaho where they have an abundance of water and hydro electric power? Sure Utah gets snowfall but they need it for their growing population and shrinking salt lake.
Might need to rename SLC to Salt Flat City.
These data centers need to be – carbon neutral, have self sufficient water supply with 100% re-use of the water or they must desalinate ocean water for it, stop using out fresh/ground water, and 0 effect on customer power supply and cost.
Cool the devices with water, send that off to large storage to cool down while cycling new water.
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Is this sub a political mouthpiece now?
I thought this was about well-organized and aesthetically pleasing data graphs
I think Iowa’s is backwards. The county said no but then they got a city to annex the land and ok it without any of the restrictions.
Ah yes, for the ~~people~~ corporations by the ~~people~~ corporations.
Probably bribed with $2500 and a Starbucks gift card.
Eddington was a documentary. Well played, Ari.
3 people are making a lit of money off the data center
petitions mean nothing. big money behind datacenters, they will be built. The water wars are comin boys, just sad I’m too old to blast the clankers.
The message seems important, but the data is far from beautiful
Bribery and corruption. That is usually how it happens.
Follow the money with feds checking bank accounts can reveal it.
Those three people need to have their assets and finances monitored for the rest of their life, including family. Clear bribery.
Be a shame if something happened to it. Mmhmm. Such a shame.
It takes decades of red tape to get high speed rail built in the US (CalHSR) and has far more benefits than a mega data center.
If NYC Mayor Mamdani has proven anything it’s that the government can work for the people but we don’t provide them with the necessary ~~bribes~~ lobbying.
This is not dataisbeautiful at all. If you don’t already understand this issue, this graphic won’t tell you anything. Try again
If any crimes were committed by the taking of bribes for the approval of that data center, I suggest someone in that community start doing some serious digging. Because the o my way I see that happening is by large sums of money flowing into three people’s pockets.
Kentucky, Cave City, city council voting on 1 year moratorium on the 18th.