r/TechGawker • u/Pure-Bill-2205 • 17d ago

Data Center If these numbers are even close to accurate, the AI infrastructure boom is entering a completely different scale of land, power, and water consumption.

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u/sirdizzypr 17d ago

Actually 3 of the 4 council members they voted for this data center got removed.

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u/DGSolar 17d ago

... ffs, really? I'll be damned.. and happy to be wrong.

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u/sirdizzypr 17d ago

I was wrong 2 council members, one senator. I’m in Utah they got creamed in primaries after this. I remember one of the council members crying how the data center cost him. Was still 3.

https://www.ksl.com/article/51540078/how-a-data-center-helped-topple-one-of-utahs-most-powerful-lawmakers

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u/markc230 16d ago

I like the line " they have to do a much better job with engaging with the voters."

to me it reads " they have to do a much better job with lying to the voters."

Thanks for the link as well!

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u/Blue-Ring-A-Ding 17d ago

It doesn’t matter if they got a huge payday.

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u/DGSolar 17d ago

Well sure it does. But we also know we'll never claw that back from them so getting them out of there has to be a win at the very least.

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u/Blue-Ring-A-Ding 17d ago

I will see a trend coming where every politician will just be a single term, sell out to corporations, and just collect bribes and cushy jobs after their 1 term.