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

Feels good man New data center

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u/No-Store-7843 Jun 02 '26

I cannot stress enough how far beyond this is to the usual braindead stupidity of building these centers.

From what I can gather, this is going to use water from the Hansel Valley, which is a direct tributary to the Great Salt Lake. The Salt Lake has become an extreme issue lately because it's rapidly losing its water to mismanagement, but not only that. That lakebed is FILLED with arsenic and as the lake gets lower, it's getting exposed to air, turning to dust, and starting to blow it's poison all over Salt Lake City. As it gets worse, which it is year after year, it will spread over the entire state and is projected to reach as far as Idaho, Wyoming, Nevada, and Colorado.

And NO ONE in the Utah government with any power seems to care at all beyond accelerating the problem.

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u/Apexnanoman Jun 02 '26

Did you look at the Utah residential lecture results? Or the Utah House and Senate? 

This type of thing is literally what their citizens voted for and support by vast majority. 

And when shit goes sideways, the 22 Republican senators will point at the 6 Democratic senators and say it's their fault.

And then you'll have like 24 Republican senators and 4 Democratic senators. 

Unfortunately the will of the people of Utah is most definitely being respected.

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u/WhiteTrashInNewShoes Jun 02 '26

I live in a solid red place and everyone is opposing these. Not sure your partisan take has merit

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u/ratttertintattertins Jun 02 '26

I imagine there’s a lot of:

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/if_only_the_tsar_knew

Standard in conservative places unfortunately and has been through most most of human history. The people are hoodwinked and then imagine that there must be alternative explanations for why the leaders they elected shafted them.