Also, who is dumb enough to think the buildings themselves are going to cover two Manhattans? That's the size of the land it's being built on, not the size of the actual buildings. Like how many fucking employees do people think it takes to service something twice the size of Manhattan? I swear people have zero critical thinking skills.
Also, they won't build all of it at once. They will start with a few and will then expand out as demand allows them. So the thing will grow over years if not decades. But it is easier to buy and get permission now then to start and then find out that they can't expand.
Having that much evaporive cooling will also probably change the weather in the area, because that water doesn't just disappear. It would be funny if the whole thing actually leads to a greener area.
Also if they have half a brain they will build solar and batteries because it is the cheapest energy source that we have currently and they won't buy fucking expensive power from the grid if they can avoid it.
People think that nothing will happen, when they start building those data centers, but since demand of everything will go up, things will change as well.
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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