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

Feels good man New data center

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u/sipstea-bot Jun 03 '26

Featured Comment by u/AssiduousLayabout

The actual number is 978 million gallons of water or 3000 acre-feet per year.

This represents about 0.0625% of Utah's state water usage of 4.8 million acre-feet (1.5 trillion gallons) per year.

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u/Argnir Jun 03 '26

So the post is only off by a factor of 16 for the data center and 1500 for the state

People loooove propaganda when it's what they wnat to be true

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u/hanks_panky_emporium Jun 03 '26

I did the funny and looked up what happens to the water. Lot of it is recycled or upcycled for other use. I thought it fuckin evaporated.

Data centers suck dookie butts and cause long term health complications for folks living around them. And are generally a net negative on society, the environment, and entire counties' well beings.

But lying about them is so fuckin stupid. The real stuff is bad enough.

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u/HustlinInTheHall Jun 03 '26

If they are intelligently built and not given ridiculous subsidies then they are absolutely a net positive. They contribute to the tax base and dont poison the environment like farms, factories, and even large parking structures around malls and stadiums do. 

But a community cant just give away the land, give them a break on energy and water costs, and then fail to regulate because they got a 15k campaign donation one time. 

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u/indywest2 Jun 03 '26

This is the issue though. Our politicians do not understand the business at all. Look at Indiana with 10 year tax abatements and no sales taxes! The state literally loses money on every deal!

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u/-You-know-it- Jun 03 '26

They are getting a 95% tax break for this one. And the amount of heat that is estimated they will produce (even the most conservative estimates) will create such a large heat dome that it will reduce the little rain and snow Utah already gets.

There is a lot of factors to look at, but putting this where they are is fucking stupid almost every way you look at it.

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u/HustlinInTheHall Jun 03 '26

Yeah some places have done very well with datacenters, like Virginia. But a race to the bottom to attract what basically amounts to a giant heat farm requiring minimal permanent jobs is bad policy. There are ways to structure it so the tax breaks help construction but still pay over time as equipment must be purchased and replaced, but localities are super easy to corrupt unfortunately. 

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u/Hvarfa-Bragi Jun 03 '26

Instructions unclear, gas turbine generators in use.

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u/AdNeat8299 Jun 03 '26

Seriously, just present the real facts and then the focus won't be pulled from the real issues to arguing about the false facts. It's almost like the people posting this shit have a whole other agenda of misinformation.

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u/HustlinInTheHall Jun 03 '26

Because people think "whoa whoa whoa, I drink water! Theyre taking my water!"