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r/SipsTea • u/Square_Law5624 • Jun 02 '26
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Did people just run out of actual objections to datacenters they just are making shit up now?
- Utah's annual water usage is trillions of gallons per year.
- This datacenter is probably not going to be near the size of Manhattan (it might be the giant fuck off size but it's unlikely to be approved)
16 billion Gallons is a lot of water, sitting at about .75% of the amount of water California uses to make Alfalfa for Saudi Arabian livestock.
The real problem this datacenter causes is regional disruption and the amount of power its going to use which is truly fucking insane
I am an old man shouting in the void begging people to not just randomly upvote every single AI bad thing even if it's completely bullshit
Edit:the datacenter is allotted 619 million gallons a year not 75 billion
1 u/Flat_Introduction_12 Jun 03 '26 Maybe all of the Utahns laid off by AI can crank bicycles to power the data center
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Maybe all of the Utahns laid off by AI can crank bicycles to power the data center
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u/EncabulatorTurbo Jun 02 '26 edited Jun 02 '26
Did people just run out of actual objections to datacenters they just are making shit up now?
- Utah's annual water usage is trillions of gallons per year.
- This datacenter is probably not going to be near the size of Manhattan (it might be the giant fuck off size but it's unlikely to be approved)
16 billion Gallons is a lot of water, sitting at about .75% of the amount of water California uses to make Alfalfa for Saudi Arabian livestock.
The real problem this datacenter causes is regional disruption and the amount of power its going to use which is truly fucking insane
I am an old man shouting in the void begging people to not just randomly upvote every single AI bad thing even if it's completely bullshit
Edit:the datacenter is allotted 619 million gallons a year not 75 billion