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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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[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.cafe 29 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

All those shithole Red states are going to get raped by data centers, while the Blue states will force them to pay their way.

[–] snapoff@sh.itjust.works 25 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

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”.

[–] this_1_is_mine@lemmy.ml 5 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

Make them quantify jobs that they are creating

[–] Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world 3 points 46 minutes ago

They city council is too busy counting the money they were given to pass this

[–] 00xide@lemmy.ml 3 points 12 hours ago

They do quantify them. There's been counters for that. The people speak out against them at town halls. It still goes up.