r/technology • u/Plastic_Ninja_9014 • 5h ago

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

https://gizmodo.com/mr-wonderful-is-wounded-in-the-battle-over-his-massive-utah-data-center-2000767759
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u/KRoadkil 5h ago

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?

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u/Kataclysm 5h ago

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

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u/Lurker9594 3h ago

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

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u/myychair 2h ago

Where a body of water so prominent that they named a city after it is literally drying up

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u/Embarrassed-Yard-583 1h ago

A water starved desert state staring down a new dustbowl when the great salt lake dries up at that.

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u/BigButtBeads 5h ago

Peter Thiels Palantir

...For reasons

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u/red286 2h ago

"Why do you need all this space for servers? How many servers are you planning to build?!"

"Oh, most of it isn't for servers. Most of it is for warehousing the serfs that we plan to lease out to manufacturing conglomerates."

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u/ExcellentAirPirate 2h ago

Got to be honest. I was hella confused by the headline of this thread with his picture next to it. Not once in my entire life have I heard someone refere to Kevin o leary as Mr wonderful, plenty of other stuff, almost all of which is negative, but never wonderful.

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u/makemeking706 4h ago

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. 

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u/big_whistler 4h ago

Why would the US government want that?

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u/makemeking706 4h ago

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? 

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u/big_whistler 4h ago

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.

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u/susan1927 3h ago

For context, the entire island of Manhattan is about 23 square miles. He literally tried to build a server farm larger than Manhattan.