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technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Fuck AI@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day ago

Kevin O’Leary’s proposed 9GW "hyperscale" AI data center in Utah will consume double the state's entire electricity usage and generate the waste heat of 23 atom bombs a day.

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Kevin O’Leary’s proposed 9GW "hyperscale" AI data center in Utah will consume double the state's entire electricity usage and generate the waste heat of 23 atom bombs a day.

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‘So much worse than I even thought’: Utah’s ‘hyperscale’ data center could create massive heat island near Great Salt Lake
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Skeptics of the proposed hyperscale data center in Box Elder County are sweating about a lot more than its energy demands and potential toll on water supplies.
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  • queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
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    A ton of these “proposed” data centers are basically fraud - part of a confidence game.

    They’re never actually getting built, they’re just lying to get people to give them money.

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    Kevin is a douche canoe

    • Jo Miran@lemmy.ml
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      Douches and canoes are useful. They don’t deserve such disrespect.

    • brainwashed@feddit.org
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      The man that calls himself Mr Wonderful? You don’t say.

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      Don’t be so kind

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    We truly are living in the stupidest timeline.

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    ‘So much worse than I even thought’: Utah’s ‘hyperscale’ data center could create massive heat island near Great Salt Lake

    The Great Salt Lake is already drying up.

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    What about a 900 GW data center?!?!??? We could run everything in one place!!1!1!1!1!!!

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    Iowa alone generates more power from just wind than that. No reason Utah can’t do the same

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      Can’t. Wind power is woke.

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        The windmills are turning the frogs gay? /s

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      But that’s not the plan

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