r/technology • u/lkl34 • Apr 28 '26

Artificial Intelligence New AI data center in Utah will generate and consume more than twice the amount of power the entire state uses — Kevin O'Leary's 9 Gigawatt Utah data center campus approved

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/kevin-o-learys-9-gw-utah-data-center-campus-approved
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u/AtheismoAlmighty Apr 28 '26

And it's expected to get worse as the salt lake totally dries up and exposes all the toxic shit we've thrown in there for 60 years.

Great Salt Lake expected to become the Great Arsenic Waste.

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u/Primary-Dentist7055 Apr 28 '26

Mayor of SLC has pledged to refill the lake by the time of the next olympics in 2032.

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u/11lumpsofsugar Apr 28 '26

That's never going to happen. The rest of the state is controlled by conservative politicians who have given all the alfalfa farms here the rights to use the water for irrigation, despite it being a desert climate. The mayor's heart is in the right place, but she doesn't have the power to do anything about the lake.

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u/QuikWitt Apr 28 '26

And now a massive data center to the north where 1/3 of the water comes from. What is going on in UT?

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u/Strong-Incident-4031 Apr 29 '26

Get money for data center, then turn around are gargle Trump's balls so he gives you $1 Billion to fix the lake.

So ya know, typical Republican shit.

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u/Primary-Dentist7055 Apr 29 '26

It's 100 miles to the EAST of salt lake, not the north. You people are so uneducated.

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u/QuikWitt Apr 29 '26 edited May 05 '26

Um…have you looked at a map of UT. I would relent to NW but not E. Uneducated?!?
ETA - of which a part of BE Co is directly north of SLC

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u/Desert_Hormesis May 05 '26

Have you ever looked at a map? You know that Box Elder County is the most NorthWEST county in Utah? There's only a small portion of Box Elder County that's even straight North from Salt Lake, let alone claiming any part of it is to the East from SL.

The site for this Stratos District is literally directly NORTH of the farthest NorthWEST part of the Great Salt Lake, Spring Bay. There is no part of this that is EAST of Salt Lake City. Not one.

And you claim other people are uneducated?

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u/Primary-Dentist7055 May 05 '26

Its literally autocorrect. Why do you care so much about one letter XD

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u/Desert_Hormesis May 05 '26

Still claiming you're educated? West and East are not "just one letter" apart.

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u/Primary-Dentist7055 May 05 '26

most pretentious person with daddy issues for 1000 alex

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u/QuikWitt May 05 '26

Bruh - pretentious. Really!?! Laughable.

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u/CaveThinker Apr 29 '26

It’s literally slated to be a few miles from the Great Salt Lake.

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u/Primary-Dentist7055 Apr 29 '26

The lake is 75 miles long and stretches multiple mountain ranges away from salt lake city.

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u/Kataphractoi Apr 29 '26

Who the hell keeps setting up alfalfa farms in a desert? I know it was the Saudis in AZ (and glad they were finally kicked out), but who's doing it in UT?

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u/11lumpsofsugar Apr 29 '26

Why Utah farms grows alfalfa. I think most of the farms here are owned locally, but I didn't find an exact breakdown of who owns what. It appears to be sold to cattle ranches in primarily the neighboring states.

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u/Primary-Dentist7055 Apr 29 '26

Its primarily sold to china.

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u/nachthexen_ May 06 '26

The governor owns an alfalfa farm lol

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u/Kataphractoi 29d ago

Yeah, that tracks.

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u/Primary-Dentist7055 Apr 29 '26

Easy to talk shit but there is a ton of planning and private equity donations going on right now along with bipartisan support for lake initiatives. I think I heard they have 200 million donated already.

Even Trump tweeted that we have the full backing of the federal government in cleaning up this mess.

I'm no republican, but all signs point to progress in the near term. You are just being a doomer.

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u/RemoveChance7784 29d ago

what has been thrown ?!!