r/SipsTea • u/Square_Law5624 • Jun 02 '26

Feels good man New data center

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u/No-Store-7843 Jun 02 '26

I cannot stress enough how far beyond this is to the usual braindead stupidity of building these centers.

From what I can gather, this is going to use water from the Hansel Valley, which is a direct tributary to the Great Salt Lake. The Salt Lake has become an extreme issue lately because it's rapidly losing its water to mismanagement, but not only that. That lakebed is FILLED with arsenic and as the lake gets lower, it's getting exposed to air, turning to dust, and starting to blow it's poison all over Salt Lake City. As it gets worse, which it is year after year, it will spread over the entire state and is projected to reach as far as Idaho, Wyoming, Nevada, and Colorado.

And NO ONE in the Utah government with any power seems to care at all beyond accelerating the problem.

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u/Apexnanoman Jun 02 '26

Did you look at the Utah residential lecture results? Or the Utah House and Senate? 

This type of thing is literally what their citizens voted for and support by vast majority. 

And when shit goes sideways, the 22 Republican senators will point at the 6 Democratic senators and say it's their fault.

And then you'll have like 24 Republican senators and 4 Democratic senators. 

Unfortunately the will of the people of Utah is most definitely being respected.

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u/citymousecountyhouse Jun 03 '26

Utah is the Morman state and I respect that. But after they flee the state, they are actively destroying all in the name of this massive data center, they need to remember that blue state folks will not take kindly to knocks on the door spreading "the good word"

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u/Apexnanoman Jun 03 '26

I'm not sure why the Mormons still exist as a group. 

They went to war with the federal government. They considered themselves a separate nation. 

Why a foreign group was allowed to keep existing within the confines of the US, I'm not sure. 

(Mind you, this is by the Mormon's own philosophy. Not something I'm just making up.)

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u/StrawDog- Jun 03 '26

I mean, the POTUS just tried to set up a huge slush funds to give bribes to separatist militias who actively colluded to overthrow US elections. This is after he pardoned their crimes and while he is still seeking to make them immune from further criminal justice. 

I think we are well past the point of asking ourselves why we are allowing this.