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‘Irresponsible’: backlash as Utah approves datacenter twice the size of Manhattan (www.theguardian.com)

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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.

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[–] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 13 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Wtf would you even want to make something that big.

Thats a huge geographic vulnerability. You could still make huge ones but spread it out.

[–] Insekticus@aussie.zone 13 points 19 hours ago

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.