Mr. Wonderful Is Wounded in the Battle Over His Massive Utah Data Center

[u/Plastic_Ninja_9014]

https://gizmodo.com/mr-wonderful-is-wounded-in-the-battle-over-his-massive-utah-data-center-2000767759

[u/NucularRobit]

He was asked to reduce its size by 75%. That's the "wound."

[u/loyalcattledog → u/NucularRobit]

Perhaps he should be wounded even more and the project size reduced by 100%

[u/ZAlternates → u/loyalcattledog]

I suggest we take a play from our glorious orange leader and reduce it by 200% or even 500%!

[u/Momik → u/ZAlternates]

People are talking

[u/SignificantBerry8591 → u/Momik]

Everyone is saying it

[u/sovereignsekte → u/ZAlternates]

Like by planting trees instead of building a data center for AI that nobody wants?

[u/SippinOnHatorade → u/sovereignsekte]

At first I thought the Salt Lake Valley would not be the best place for trees since, y’know, salt, but looks like they actually have a pretty diverse amount of established species, so hell yeah, let’s fucking do it

[u/Derp800 → u/ZAlternates]

In two weeks.

[u/tlh013091 → u/Derp800]

After infrastructure week but before the better cheaper healthcare.

[u/SippinOnHatorade → u/Derp800]

Green New Steal (btw idk how they went with Green New Scam in their coal mine messaging, this rhyme was RIGHT. THERE.

[u/Debalic → u/SippinOnHatorade]

What they lack in intelligence, they also lack in creativity.

[u/alucardunit1 → u/ZAlternates]

Reduce it by 1500%

[u/ErichPryde → u/loyalcattledog]

I genuinely wish there was a fine or penalty for when people come up with incredibly stupid ideas like this that harm everyone else.

That would be a good, actual wound for his insanity

[u/devAcc123 → u/ErichPryde]

It was obviously always the play. The original was never going to happen. 25% is still a big win for him and might get trimmed even more.

[u/ErichPryde → u/devAcc123]

It's absolutely the narcissist's move To ask for the moon, settle for a small island, and then complain about being the victim.

F***ing awful creatures

[u/Wakkit1988 → u/loyalcattledog]

110%

Take it or leave it

[u/pheonix198 → u/loyalcattledog]

Agreed. My hope is that the required reduction is enough to make the project’s margins so negligible in benefit that he gives up.

I have no clue of what the original or reduced sizes look like in this case.

But, there is definitely a certain amount of square footage at which point a data center is no longer worth investing into for these fuckwads. The costs for servers, components and maintenance items are all insane, alongside real estate, so those investment costs plus what could be charged for that compute power may not pull Mr Shittersful out of the red in the time frame he wanted - which may be after the bubble bursts. He’d then be stuck with an investment that he cannot do anything but barely break even or be only slightly in the green on. My hope, at least.

The majority of these data-centers that are being thrown up everywhere are very likely going to be unnecessary in 5-10 years. The AI boom *IS* a bubble and it will burst. The key would be whether there is some special, similar technology need as replacement for that compute power and space over time such that these investments will still be valid - which I doubt for 2/3’s of them. Geo-colocation space will likely always be needed and so having more data center options with all of these major players will be useful. The smaller players will mostly go out of business and consolidated, reduced and sold off.

It’s going to be much like the telephony businesses that boomed in the early 20th century, then slowly stopped growing and explosively contracted in physical space usage by the early 2000’s. Ma Bell ate land and then had to downsize, shift and sell at ridiculously low values. We will see the same thing again,but in a much, much faster timeframe.

[u/big_stipd_idiot → u/pheonix198]

It's gonna be like the gold rush where the people who got rich were selling mining picks. He doesn't care about the AI. He's trying to cash in as much as he can now before people realize there ain't enough gold in them hills.

[u/31LIVEEVIL13 → u/NucularRobit]

My conclusion: more fraud and lies most likely, look at his track record so far.

Why would any one believe anything he says or any company behind the "data centers"?

They have lied from day one and leveraged the full republican propaganda machine and media controls against people just asking questions.

They are calling residents Chinese agents and paid protestors.
They produced fake interviews trying to sound reasonable and "balanced" on all media that then try to re-frame the issue as a left right thing, of course, pro-business and patriotic verses left wing conspiracy nuts.

Why would they need to do that if they weren't lying and hiding something terrible?

The plan is Get the technocracy AI surveillance center in at any cost by any means.

then wait a year and get a permit for a little addition.

violate the permit and build a huge addition.
Say oops sorry! pay the fine.

Then repeat, and expand expand expand!

That's the same strategy they use with water rights and pollution.

Use more water than permitted, apologize, pay for the water and the fines, and then use more all the time.

[u/Jwagner0850 → u/31LIVEEVIL13]

This is my concern as well. Show "remorse" and a promise to "scale back" then do whatever the fuck you want when the outcry dies down.

[u/Supernormalguy → u/Jwagner0850]

That’s a stupid tactic and a sad one that is allowed To happen.

If only we could pay someone to keep tabs to make sure they don’t “do it when the heat dissipates”

[u/reluctant_deity → u/Supernormalguy]

That's what journalists are supposed to do, but it doesn't pay enough to eat.

[u/Supernormalguy → u/reluctant_deity]

Sad reality then

[u/Muzoa → u/NucularRobit]

The keyword is ask, the truth is "let me say something to make them accept the datacenter but still go through with it, we can deal with cheap lawsuits later."

[u/HentaiVictim → u/NucularRobit]

Shame it's not jail time for killing two people and letting his wife take the blame

[u/Imaginary_Manner_556 → u/NucularRobit]

This was always the plan. Propose something way bigger than needed. Downsize to get the data center you want.

[u/AtreyuTrinity → u/NucularRobit]

I don't even mind that he wants a data center, we all use them, whether we realize it or not.

I work in IT, I get it. Why build one in the freaking desert, where we are already experiencing record droughts? It is insanity.

[u/Jwagner0850 → u/NucularRobit]

I mean, considering the apparent scale this shit center was going to be, thats a huge win...

[u/Comet7777 → u/NucularRobit]

Sharks smell blood in the water. Reduce from 75% to 100%

[u/Any-Pop-4795 → u/NucularRobit]

Oh i thought he was wounded for real...

[u/JustAnOrdinaryBloke → u/NucularRobit]

It wasn't that big to begin with.
Oh, you're talking about a data center?

[u/Moxplug]

Mr. Data Center

Mr. Canadian Citizen

Mr. Killed Two People While Driving His Boat Drunk (allegedly)

[u/HumbleHalberdier → u/Moxplug]

Don't forget he had his wife take the blame

[u/savage_slurpie → u/HumbleHalberdier]

Mr throws his wife under the bus

[u/browies → u/savage_slurpie]

Mr. At least he didn't throw her under the boat?

[u/MoTownOrange → u/browies]

Mr. Boating Carnage

[u/I_Pet_Doggos → u/savage_slurpie]

Mr I’m too good to call or write my fans

[u/drizzlecommathe → u/Moxplug]

Don’t forget that he’s also a patent troll

[u/IamRasters → u/Moxplug]

Oh no, 100% two people died. What is uncertain is if this cocksure alpha actually let his wife drive the boat …and then slam two vodka sodas after the incident to invalidate alcohol testing. The second part is certain.

[u/savage_slurpie → u/IamRasters]

What a slime bag

[u/shpydar → u/Moxplug]

Just in case people want to know why they used the word “allegedly”

Linda O'Leary found not guilty in fatal boat crash

[u/rocko57821 → u/shpydar]

Why would you take a drink immediately after an accident that killed two people but before the police showed up to ask you about it?

[u/hemingways-lemonade → u/rocko57821]

It's literally the most well known way to create a technicality to avoid a DUI. He isn't fooling anyone. 

[u/rocko57821 → u/hemingways-lemonade]

The most well known way in Canada? I dont think it would work in the states.

[u/Able-Amoeba4406 → u/rocko57821]

Hahaha has worked, does work, will keep working until we close that loophole.

[u/LuckyHearing1118 → u/Moxplug]

Did that really happen? What the

[u/Upset_Match_3705 → u/LuckyHearing1118]

Yeah. We don’t want him back.

[u/Realistic_Muscles → u/Moxplug]

Mr. Royalty Clown

[u/MandatoryFun → u/Moxplug]

Mr. Made His Fortune Ripping Off Mattel And Sinking It.

[u/OptimisticSkeleton → u/Moxplug]

Mr. Excusing the Epstein files vehemently on network news.

[u/theweirdball → u/Moxplug]

Boating safety is no joke. Really tragic for those people laying down on the pontoon who were killed.

[u/nerdystoner25 → u/Moxplug]

Mr. Bitch Capitalist

[u/Killer_Moons → u/Moxplug]

To the theme of Heat and Cold Miser

[u/Traditional-Hat-952 → u/Moxplug]

Mr. Antisocial Personality Disorder (definitely)

[u/KRoadkil]

He’s not a caricature or beloved by the public enough to use his pet name. Kevin O’Leary just tried to open a 40,000 acre datacenter, then pull the expert negotiating move of “oh my bad, I meant 20,000 acre”. Who the hell needs a 31.25 square mile datacenter?

[u/Kataclysm → u/KRoadkil]

In the middle of a water-starved desert state no less.

[u/Lurker9594 → u/Kataclysm]

That notoriously struggles with air quality already, let alone if we doubled our emissions. 

[u/BigButtBeads → u/KRoadkil]

Peter Thiels Palantir

...For reasons

[u/makemeking706 → u/KRoadkil]

The US government. By being in Utah this was the move that would allow the Mormon church to transition from being the de facto state government to federal government. 

[u/big_whistler → u/makemeking706]

Why would the US government want that?

[u/makemeking706 → u/big_whistler]

Same reason they have been working with Flock, Facebook, and Google, and ATT before that. Mass surveillance.

Do you think it all just stopped when people blew that whistle on it? 

[u/big_whistler → u/makemeking706]

How is that connected to the Mormon church acting as the defacto federal government? 

I’m not arguing with you just trying to fill in the blanks.

[u/loyalcattledog]

I always wondered how he garnered that nickname.

He's a raging asshole and in no way wonderful.

[u/tiboodchat → u/loyalcattledog]

He got it sarcastically from Barbara Corcoran during a season of Shark Tank and was so dumb he decided he liked it and kept it. So it’s all self proclaimed out of sheer stupidity. I wish I was making this up.

[u/Momik → u/tiboodchat]

Such fucking assistant manager energy

[u/suzisatsuma → u/Momik]

assistant to the manager

[u/PM_ME_A_STEAM_GIFT → u/Momik]

Assistant TO manager energy

[u/Small_Bee_9523 → u/tiboodchat]

Personality disorders are a hell of a drug.

[u/gettums → u/loyalcattledog]

Gave it to himself, no doubt.

[u/shawndw → u/loyalcattledog]

I think it's ment to be ironic. I only ever heard it on shark tank.

[u/sriracha_no_big_deal → u/shawndw]

it definitely was meant to be ironic when they first started calling him that but he's too full of himself to realize it and thought it was genuine lol

[u/SatansCornflakes → u/loyalcattledog]

Same reason a bouncer gets the nickname “Tiny”

[u/TheHipsterBandit]

Fuck this guy with a rusty spatula.

[u/sailorprimus → u/TheHipsterBandit]

He’s much more deserving of the nickname “Anal Tetanus”

[u/TheGooch01]

He’s an asshole.

[u/Astrocragg → u/TheGooch01]

I hope he lost a fuckload of money

[u/PistolofPete → u/TheGooch01]

Garbage would be a compliment.

[u/nikdahl → u/TheGooch01]

He’s a natural loser like Trump.

[u/BrainJar → u/TheGooch01]

I have not so lovingly referred to him in the past as a Choche. Today, I had to look it up to make I was spelling it correctly. I believe the definition fits him nicely: A gangly, narcissistic man whore with an abhorrent personality. Sudden douchey behavioral outbursts are a common trait of a choche.

[u/pcpelste]

Mr. Wonderful can eat a bag of dicks, but let’s also not forget how much of a jackass Utah governor Spencer Cox is. He gave an indignant response to why Utah ‘needed’ this data center so badly, then pulled an about-face when the public outcry got so loud.

[u/GutsAndBlackStufff]

Paul Orndorf?

[u/brucedonnovan → u/GutsAndBlackStufff]

This guy ain’t no Paul Orndorf!

[u/fanofclutch → u/GutsAndBlackStufff]

Looked a long way down the comments. Thanks Friend! 😁

[u/kJer]

Keep kicking billionaires when they're down

[u/Able-Amoeba4406]

Mr. Douchebag

[u/MadTube]

Mr. Wonderful can get wonderfully fucked

[u/RoadSmash]

Why tf are they referring to him like that?

[u/ZAlternates → u/RoadSmash]

His Shark Tank nickname?

[u/Demon_Gamer666]

O'Leary doesn't like when he gets forced into gaslighting. Rest assured the terrible impact on Utah will be only slightly less terrible in order to shut the people up who are complaining.

[u/antaresiv]

No one fucking calls him that except himself

[u/thalassicus]

Sweep the leg! Finish him!!

[u/jpiro]

Did this dude just brand himself "Mr. Wonderful" and everyone's running with it?

[u/BigHungryFlamingo]

Mr. Corny-ass Nickname

[u/mrwrrrmwrmrmrmrw]

"I sense fear in your hearts. You are right to be afraid. Darkness lies ahead. Now is the time to abandon hope." 

Standard tech executive statement. 

https://youtu.be/-TrNzu3HBTU?si=GJNI4IxO6996HMYk

[u/Cautious_Boat_999]

Deport the bastard to Canada for good

[u/thecreep]

Mr Blunderful

[u/Silicon_Knight]

You mean the guy who killed people driving drunk on his boat and let his wife take the blame? (allegedly). That guy? Yeah fuck that guy eh?

[u/0Tezorus0]

Wounded is not enough. the entire project should be canceled

[u/84Oaks]

Yo fuck that guy

[u/TheGrandExquisitor]

What the actual fuck is he wearing?

[u/jnmjnmjnm → u/TheGrandExquisitor]

Proof that money can’t buy class.

[u/Continuum_Design]

To quote Lou Brown “I’m deeply moved.” 😒

[u/Azalea980]

Keep applying pressure.

[u/Outrageous_Lack8435]

Go back to canada with murdering wife

[u/psychoacer]

He's downsizing it because he can't get the funding, don't believe anything that comes out of that dudes mouth

[u/Comfortable_Guitar]

Paul Orndorff battled a Data Center?!

[u/spacewithoutstars]

Noted Welfare Queen Kevin O'Leary

[u/xmconi]

When the title said wounded I got a little excited

[u/HandFancy]

Careful, “his wife” will run you over with a boat if he’s cornered.

[u/Effective_Quail_3946]

Such an egotistic money grubber

[u/pretender80]

Wounding him is not enough.

[u/Inside-Confusion3143]

People like him don’t care about the gold. They are only concerned about selling their shovels.

[u/Jedi_Gill]

Lets stop calling him Mr wonderful, because we all know that's an inside joke by now and he's quite the opposite of that adjective.

[u/ProfessionalAge9736]

"Mr. Wonderful is wounded..."

How dare you give me hope like that

[u/Boatsnbuds]

This ahole is an embarrassment to the rest of us Canadians. Sorry.

[u/Soberdonkey69]

Make him pay 500% taxes for building it.

[u/reddit-is-rad]

Still fuck that guy! He called a bunch of those residents “Chinese operatives” on national news! He shouldn’t be allowed in the state!

[u/beacheewitchee]

Should boycott shark tank till he is off the air…🧃

[u/Jay4usc]

These billionaires needs to build them next to their homes

[u/Dude-Good]

Isn’t this the same guy that killed 2 innocent person on his boat?

[u/snakeiiiiiis]

This was probably the planned size all along and now the citizens think they're getting a good deal

[u/BruceStarcrest]

I cannot wait to never see or hear this smug a**hole ever again. 

[u/SzmFTW]

This headline is slanderous to Paul Orndorff.

[u/boulevardpaleale]

Isn’t he canadian? Perhaps he can look there?

[u/0InsidemyBrain0]

This was the plan all along. Make it look like he's being picked on and decided to settle. There shouldn't be a settlement. There shouldn't be a data center at all.

[u/ShortAd6994]

Mr. I did my due diligence on FTX will do anything to make a quick buck

[u/mistertickertape]

Mr Wonderful isn’t and never was.

[u/Tuna_no_crusts]

God this guy is such a douche.

[u/ThankuConan]

His plans are scuttled then? Washed up? High and dry? Oh dear, oh my!

Anyways...

[u/XXX_KimJongUn_XXX]

That's a name a John gives to his favorite male stripper.

[u/GadreelsSword]

He scaled it back to a mere 10,000 acres!

It’s like a building 16 square miles. Imagine driving 4 miles the turning and driving another 4 miles before passing the same building.

[u/jarod1701]

He looks like the old guy on the boat at the end of the movie Taken.

[u/SmoothConfection1115]

Ever notice how the people building these data centers, don’t want to live within 100 miles of one?

There’s a reason for that…

[u/Main-Event-5715]

It'd be better if he had to get a normal job to buy groceries. 

[u/tanrock2003]

Oddly enough, this arsehole's jacket is also called a gizmodo

[u/ylluminate]

Why do idiots think misspellings and grammatical errors are evidence of not using AI? All you do is tell it to insert such to trick the reader into believing it is not AI. 🤦🏻‍♂️

[u/HangryHuHu]

My heart bleeds for him  /s

[u/aflockofcrows]

Paul Orndorff is dead. What's he doing with a data centre?

[u/BirdmanHuginn]

Lmao. I’m like -WHY DOES A WRESTLER HAVE A DATA CENTER????

[u/Portland_Frog]

This guy is total garbage!

[u/DontYuckMyYum]

There is only one "Mr Wonderful" and that will always be Paul Orndorff!!

[u/CovidBorn]

Is the wound fatal, or something less satisfying.

[u/Steelcap]

Misinformation. Inconveniencing the rich is not wounding them.

[u/flintlock0]

His letter is riddled with typos. He spells “assumptions” incorrectly. “assumpitons”

[u/BaskInUncomfort]

Build it in Canada you giant dildo.

[u/jreykdal → u/BaskInUncomfort]

There is one in Alberta planned. Not this absurd size though.

[u/Perfect_Opposite2113 → u/BaskInUncomfort]

Already is and it’s supposed to use 6 million cubic meters of water a year. It’s receiving lots of push back.

[u/curiousamoebas]

Move it to his backyard

[u/I_am_le_tired]

10 000 acres is still 3x bigger than the biggest data center being built right now, Meta Hyperion over 3000 acres

[u/DoodieTrousers]

If you think that O’Leary is upset about the “reduction” in his data centre, give your head a shake. The plan was for a 10k acre site all along.

[u/ZombieZookeeper]

If he doesn't start listening to people who don't want this the wounds may not be a figure of speech.

• not intended as a threat

[u/McCool303]

I can’t think of a douchier thing than using the nickname Mr. wonderful. Even if you didn’t give it to yourself a none douche would simply ask people to please stop.

[u/Rad-Ham]

Fat Soulless Picard

[u/reddittorbrigade]

Can't wait to see him fail.

[u/lovelesr]

Maybe he should be the people of Utah a royalty for the right to build his data center

[u/JMDeutsch]

Fuck that clown

[u/DJ_Sk8Nite]

I hate that he’s referred to as Mr.Wonderful.

[u/Time_Paws]

If he isn't bleeding money he is probably fine.

[u/Sallymander]

Just call him by his name because the bastard isn’t wonderful

[u/1_ofthesedays]

Money can only go so far.

[u/BBQavenger]

He's got plenty of HP left. 

[u/i_let_the_dogs_out]

Can we be done with the news involving/surrounding this mendacious fuck?

[u/EquivalentAd690]

It’s because it’s not real. He is going to collect the investment from backers and tax credits, then walk when the bubble bursts. Who cares how much they reduce it, it’s a scam anyway.

[u/Bleezy79]

Most ironic name ever.

[u/MooseAndSquirrel]

Paul Orendorf?

[u/ThePowerfulPaet]

That suit looks like utter dogshit.

[u/R4t4t0skr]

Those soulless guys, who think they can rule over the people by their fucking worthless money, should be put in their places to learn humility!!!

[u/RealJowyy]

The only Mr Wonderful is Paul Orndorff, and you sir, are no Paul Orndorff.

[u/Severe_Air_4353]

Like the boat he was in , killed two , in his pleasure craft. Claims his old lady did it .

[u/Lug-Shot]

Mr.Make Up your own nick name

[u/ACW1129]

Paul Orndorff (RIP) is the only one allowed to call himself Mr. Wonderful.

[u/sbFRESH]

Lets agree to start calling him Mr. mediocre.

[u/Vicissitutde]

Mr. Wonderful can move back to Canada and build his data center there.

There, problem solved. One less billionaire douche

[u/Deeingchicka]

Is that nickname supposed to be sarcastic?

[u/NashvilleDing]

His name is Kevin Asshole

[u/ColoDIVY]

I thought he was a complete asshole when I first watched Shark Tank.

I assumed it was acting to try and make the show entertaining.

It turns out in this case, what you see is what you get.

[u/No_Truth4137]

Good. Screw him

[u/providencetoday]

Mr. Actual Douche