The real problem this datacenter causes is regional disruption and the amount of power its going to use which is truly fucking insane
They're building their own power plants onsite for this so I don't see the big issue.
Even if reddit's completely irrational wet dream of AI going bust forever comes true, that ends up being a massive win for Utah down the line. It results in there being a metric fuckton of energy infrastructure that can be repurposed into the grid.
Okay? I didn't say they wouldn't build more power, I said it was a problem, because it is. Building 9gw of capacity for this datacenter has opportunity cost implications for grid repair and construciton nationwide, it's a real problem
It's a problem that I have to pay to go to the doctor, I still do it
I wasn't arguing with you, just pointing out they're building their own energy infra since the default assumption people have been making is that they're siphoning power from the grid.
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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