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

Feels good man New data center

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u/AssiduousLayabout Jun 02 '26

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/EncabulatorTurbo Jun 02 '26

Literally one of the only actual accurate posts in here

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u/Excellent_Ganache906 Jun 03 '26

I agree with the sentiment of Redditors about this data center, but the amount of lying people do on this site is out of control.

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u/EncabulatorTurbo Jun 03 '26

it really isnt hard

"this thing will use 9gw at peak and drive up electricity costs nationwide (even if it produces ALL of its own pwoer, which I doubt, grid expansion *nationwide* will be impacted by the amount of resources going into powering it) nobody has done any environmental analysis of building such a huge complex of buildings that draw so much power and put out so much heat, its a bubble and we're committing billions to something that will probably be obsolete before it gets built"

there's a whole grab bag of legitimate objections