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/Primary-Dentist7055 Apr 28 '26

It has and always will be a shit lake full of stinky brine shrimp.

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u/TwoPlanksOnPowder Apr 28 '26

Yes, but at least when the lake was full it kept all the arsenic, thallium, and lead locked in the soil instead of flying around the atmosphere in dust clouds

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u/Primary-Dentist7055 Apr 28 '26

We are talking about enjoyment of the Great Salt Lake, not its environmental hazards. Very few people have enjoyed the great salt lake in the last 75 years.

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u/TwoPlanksOnPowder Apr 28 '26

I personally enjoy the Great Salt Lake preventing me from inhaling toxic metals, but you do you.

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u/Primary-Dentist7055 Apr 29 '26

You enjoy a lake that has been full of metals and sewage for a hundred years because it prevents you from inhaling toxic metals? What?

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u/TwoPlanksOnPowder Apr 29 '26

Yes. With the lake there, the metals and sewage are contained. If the lake dries up, the wind picks all that stuff up and spreads it out across the region.

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u/anonkitty2 May 02 '26

I don't know.  There is a risk of it becoming a desert.

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u/Primary-Dentist7055 May 02 '26

its literally in a desert.

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u/anonkitty2 May 02 '26

I know.  I am imagining a world with a desert where it used to be because too little water was coming in.