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‘Irresponsible’: backlash as Utah approves datacenter twice the size of Manhattan
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 13 May 2026
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161 km² in commie units
If that's going to be one humongous superstructure, zoned inside, then if this fails, they might get a new city. Superstructures like this are nice, just nobody usually builds them (after 50s and 60s, I suppose) for residential areas.
One can repurpose the space for multi-story apartments (I suppose ceilings will be much higher than needed), or malls, or literally everything.
Or factories, if there are problems with exporting orders to southeast Asia.
If this even gets built.
Or if it doesn't fail, then heat and noise pollution, I suppose. And grid load. Not nice.
That's astonishing. How many servers will be running in that thing? Billions? Am I missing something?
Zero servers are ever gonna run in this thing, it's just... even more obvious than with all the other fucking absued data center proposals.