Proposed Massive Data Center in Utah Sparks Environmental Concerns
A proposed hyperscale data center in Box Elder County, Utah, has drawn significant criticism due to its massive scale and potential environmental impact. Spanning approximately 62 square miles, the project is backed by Canadian businessman Kevin O'Leary. Critics highlight concerns regarding the facility's projected electricity consumption, which is estimated to be nearly triple that of the entire state of Utah. Furthermore, there are alarms regarding the facility's water requirements—estimated at 10,000 acre-feet annually—in a region already experiencing severe drought and declining water levels in the Great Salt Lake. The project's footprint is visualized as being nearly three times the size of Manhattan, raising questions about sustainability and resource management in the area.
China bots are mad that they are not the only ones using data centers
Wait till people realize how much water the alfafa farmers are using every year in Utah. This data center is a drop in the bucket, it might use 1,000 acre feet of water per year. Whereas agriculture in the state uses over 1,000,000 acre feet per year (with nearly half lost to eva
Kev Kev will chuck down millions of dollars and at current prices he will get 4u of machines, 3 gpus and a standing fan to cool it.
Let me guess, that millionaire has agreed to possibly think about the potential installation of power plants that might maybe be able to furnish an indefinite amount of the potential electric consumption of that thing?... Nah, listen to me, I'm far too negative. Of course datacen
O'Leary was always a dick and now he's expanding his dickishness.
62 square miles is bigger than many cities... and they amount of water contamination it will do daily will literally kill people around it nothing to say about the noise pollution the world is doomed and there will be no need for an ai overlord to do it
This is clearly a 2 birds one stone issue. The solution of course is to gather together the local crackheads, and give them a crash course on the economics of recycling scrap copper, and then explain just how much copper can be recycled from a data center. Now you have helped the
Americans with all their freedoms and guns still won't fight against it.
And all thisto make you unemployed
Acre-feet? Wtf?