599
‘Irresponsible’: backlash as Utah approves datacenter twice the size of Manhattan (www.theguardian.com)
submitted 4 months ago* by to c/technology@lemmy.world
77 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

The Stratos artificial intelligence datacenter footprint will cover more than 40,000 acres (62 sq miles) over three sites in Box Elder county in north-western Utah. The facility will require about 9GW of power, which is more than the entire state of Utah currently consumes, and suck up a significant amount of water in an area that has been hit by severe drought in recent years.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] 74 points 4 months ago (4 children)

That's long-term thinking. I assume it's like a ponzi scheme: everyone who puts money into something like this thinks they'll cash out before the problems occur.

Why do I feel like the ones left holding the bag are going to be the taxpayers/residents somehow?

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 4 child comments
    •
  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago*

    If I were justifying my account name, I'd suppose, for the purpose of future appearing interesting, this might be a coverup.

    Such a structure is useful for many things, and while a DC doesn't have to be that big, a factory producing real things on scale or mass housing or a prepared company town all benefit from being in one place.

    So perhaps it's being built as a DC, but in fact is going to be like a drone factory, or something equally dystopian-futuristic.

    Or a humongous supercomputer, whatever.

    I'm starting to think along plot lines of science fiction and space operas I've seen and read before, they were saying it's harmful for my development, I didn't believe them.

    Another option - it's, yes, a scheme and it won't get built. Just pump and dump.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent