Which honestly needs to happen. Those council members should be fearing for their lives everytime they go outside. But Oleary probably gave them a fat paycheck so they will no longer have to live in the area.

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?

It's located on the Ruby Pipeline which will serve as the primary source of energy in the short term. Additionally, the data center being classified as a national security site, is located near the Utah Test and Training Range.

Longer term the facility is looking at nuclear facilities for power and the possibility for a runway and aviation facilities.

The primary customer of this facility will be the United States military.

Nobody is thinking this shit through long-term or short.

"waaahhh death threats" is the usual retort whenever someone gets deserved criticism. Maybe try not doing things that make your constituents want to kill you?

Assuming that happens, I think we can look to Detroit, starting 50 years ago, for a good example of how awful we are at scaling down and retiring infrastructure at anything approaching this scale. Especially when the state doesn't care to require companies to clean up their mess.

My money is on Ikea acquiring the leftovers to easily set up new locations lol

Is it even the type of RAM peasants like me are interested in?

Remember your LOTO before you snip the wires

It’s not that black and white (or red and blue as the case may be). I live in a blue state that is also selling out to data centers under the guise of “job creation”.

AI for the surveillance state.
Sort of like the center point of skynet.
Soon there will be heavily armed autonomous mechs walking the perimeter shooting everything organic within 100m the property border

Have you ever played Cyberpunk 2077?

That's astonishing. How many servers will be running in that thing? Billions? Am I missing something?

Greed. That's the entirety of the answer.

Whoever ticks and flicks these data centres is paid with grotesque amounts of money to approve this shit and to deal with the fallout.

Good luck. The data center is classified as a national security site and has the Utah Test and Training Range base nearby.

They're building it with the intention of military security.

High-royalty, low-equity that sounds better than it is.