<![CDATA[9GW datacentre approved.]]>9GW datacentre approved. I'm trying to get my head round the scale of this. The whole of the UK uses about 40GW of electricity. So this one facility is a quarter of the UK grid. In one location. I had to look up box elder county on Wikipedia. "Its territory includes large tracts of barren desert,". Right, so a datacentre that uses the same amount of electricity as a quarter of the UK. In a fucking desert. And that's before we even consider the CO2 emissions. Yikes.

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New AI data center in Utah will generate and consume more than twice the amount of power the entire state uses — Kevin O'Leary's 9 Gigawatt Utah data center campus approved

The 40,000-acre project will run entirely off-grid using natural gas.

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]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/topic/53b014d8-4c1b-4709-aa8f-60fc3855178f/9gw-datacentre-approved.RSS for NodeThu, 30 Apr 2026 17:40:37 GMTTue, 28 Apr 2026 09:59:05 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to 9GW datacentre approved. on Wed, 29 Apr 2026 07:13:01 GMT]]>@quixoticgeek@social.v.st the funny thing is that NOBODY has the money to actually build it, no company in the world has so much money lol

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://antani.cyou/notes/alna8fm4fym503a5https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://antani.cyou/notes/alna8fm4fym503a5Wed, 29 Apr 2026 07:13:01 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 9GW datacentre approved. on Wed, 29 Apr 2026 05:40:13 GMT]]>@quixoticgeek That's no moon. That's a battle station.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://dice.camp/users/pawsplay/statuses/116486387392460839https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://dice.camp/users/pawsplay/statuses/116486387392460839Wed, 29 Apr 2026 05:40:13 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 9GW datacentre approved. on Wed, 29 Apr 2026 05:14:45 GMT]]>@quixoticgeek

Look at all the roof cooling units. Total waste.

Ground temp is an average of 55 degrees (F) at 6-10 foot depth. The entire design would cost more to build geo-thermal but consume less grid energy for cooling.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://theforkiverse.com/ap/users/115874488801031585/statuses/116486287202314919https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://theforkiverse.com/ap/users/115874488801031585/statuses/116486287202314919Wed, 29 Apr 2026 05:14:45 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 9GW datacentre approved. on Wed, 29 Apr 2026 05:04:32 GMT]]>@quixoticgeek indeed.

@wesdym the point of the term 'new'speak is not that it's new, but that like the language in Orwell's novel, it is desceptive and changes how people think.
Also, no need to be an asshole about it. I saw what you posted @ me.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://climatejustice.social/users/artemis/statuses/116486247050118806https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://climatejustice.social/users/artemis/statuses/116486247050118806Wed, 29 Apr 2026 05:04:32 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 9GW datacentre approved. on Wed, 29 Apr 2026 04:55:41 GMT]]>@bouriquet definitely. And definitely datacenter bad. They're just not killing this particular fairy 🙂

@quixoticgeek

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mas.to/users/iwein/statuses/116486212264744815https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mas.to/users/iwein/statuses/116486212264744815Wed, 29 Apr 2026 04:55:41 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 9GW datacentre approved. on Wed, 29 Apr 2026 03:03:06 GMT]]>@ehproque @quixoticgeek

Policy, top of the social, ecological model! Great choice! I'll send you a draft soon!

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://beige.party/users/mycotropic/statuses/116485769565698017https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://beige.party/users/mycotropic/statuses/116485769565698017Wed, 29 Apr 2026 03:03:06 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 9GW datacentre approved. on Wed, 29 Apr 2026 01:29:41 GMT]]>@iwein @quixoticgeek But the data centers typically use fresh water to cool the systems, rendering it contaminated

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/bouriquet/statuses/116485402219383540https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/bouriquet/statuses/116485402219383540Wed, 29 Apr 2026 01:29:41 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 9GW datacentre approved. on Tue, 28 Apr 2026 20:35:32 GMT]]>@quixoticgeek You know what? I'm really just kind of done with your stupid childish shit at this point. You make ignorant remarks, link childish sources, make vague and meaningless excuses, and you write like fucking child. Bye.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/wesdym/statuses/116484245610057003https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/wesdym/statuses/116484245610057003Tue, 28 Apr 2026 20:35:32 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 9GW datacentre approved. on Tue, 28 Apr 2026 20:31:52 GMT]]>@wesdym it's a half as interesting YouTube video. What else do you expect

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.v.st/users/quixoticgeek/statuses/116484231194640167https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.v.st/users/quixoticgeek/statuses/116484231194640167Tue, 28 Apr 2026 20:31:52 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 9GW datacentre approved. on Tue, 28 Apr 2026 20:31:12 GMT]]>@quixoticgeek I'm talking about the video you linked. It's childish.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/wesdym/statuses/116484228525518165https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/wesdym/statuses/116484228525518165Tue, 28 Apr 2026 20:31:12 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 9GW datacentre approved. on Tue, 28 Apr 2026 20:29:15 GMT]]>@wesdym https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorado_River

This one ?

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.v.st/users/quixoticgeek/statuses/116484220893057976https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.v.st/users/quixoticgeek/statuses/116484220893057976Tue, 28 Apr 2026 20:29:15 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 9GW datacentre approved. on Tue, 28 Apr 2026 20:27:33 GMT]]>@quixoticgeek I'm not a small child. Is there a version of this made for grown-ups?

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/wesdym/statuses/116484214206491526https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/wesdym/statuses/116484214206491526Tue, 28 Apr 2026 20:27:33 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 9GW datacentre approved. on Tue, 28 Apr 2026 20:26:23 GMT]]>@quixoticgeek
I also note they want to use about 40,000 acres for this project. Google tells me it takes between 4-8,000 acres to produce 1 gigawatt of power. So they are claiming enough property to use solar power for the whole project.
They might claim there is no producer able to make that many solar panels. But they have also not explained how they will source that much gas or steam turbine generating capacity.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://m.ai6yr.org/users/Dougfir/statuses/116484209607749086https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://m.ai6yr.org/users/Dougfir/statuses/116484209607749086Tue, 28 Apr 2026 20:26:23 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 9GW datacentre approved. on Tue, 28 Apr 2026 20:11:52 GMT]]>@quixoticgeek

It's a cinch that new 9 gw AI software data center in Utah won't be used to process your credit card purchases -- except as part of processing your entire personal file.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mstdn.social/users/huntingdon/statuses/116484152534849355https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mstdn.social/users/huntingdon/statuses/116484152534849355Tue, 28 Apr 2026 20:11:52 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 9GW datacentre approved. on Tue, 28 Apr 2026 20:09:24 GMT]]>@quixoticgeek Utah brought this on themselves, by stupidly electing the kinds of assholes who'd greenlight something like this. My sympathy is limited.

Why this location, I don't know. Maybe the land was cheap. But a lax regulatory environment was undoubtedly a factor.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/wesdym/statuses/116484142836864595https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/wesdym/statuses/116484142836864595Tue, 28 Apr 2026 20:09:24 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 9GW datacentre approved. on Tue, 28 Apr 2026 20:05:26 GMT]]>@quixoticgeek Not to mention the water that it will require, in state that is in sever drought and whose great salt lake is evaporating away

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://shark.community/users/mira/statuses/116484127258059847https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://shark.community/users/mira/statuses/116484127258059847Tue, 28 Apr 2026 20:05:26 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 9GW datacentre approved. on Tue, 28 Apr 2026 19:29:30 GMT]]>@quixoticgeek
That biosphere won't just destroy itself, you know.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/brouhaha/statuses/116483985955759155https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/brouhaha/statuses/116483985955759155Tue, 28 Apr 2026 19:29:30 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 9GW datacentre approved. on Tue, 28 Apr 2026 18:13:17 GMT]]>@syklemil @quixoticgeek @CppGuy Batteries are not, though.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/mihamarkic/statuses/116483686220887002https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/mihamarkic/statuses/116483686220887002Tue, 28 Apr 2026 18:13:17 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 9GW datacentre approved. on Tue, 28 Apr 2026 18:09:27 GMT]]>@quixoticgeek 🤦‍♂️ I grew up in this county. Almost all of my family lives in this county.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://beige.party/users/LibertyForward1/statuses/116483671195013114https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://beige.party/users/LibertyForward1/statuses/116483671195013114Tue, 28 Apr 2026 18:09:27 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 9GW datacentre approved. on Tue, 28 Apr 2026 18:06:54 GMT]]>@quixoticgeek Kind of insane!

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/stevo618/statuses/116483661154830315https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/stevo618/statuses/116483661154830315Tue, 28 Apr 2026 18:06:54 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 9GW datacentre approved. on Tue, 28 Apr 2026 17:57:23 GMT]]>@lovemakeshare @peteriskrisjanis @freya @quixoticgeek I remember TLC. It was a good thing.

the Usian prez is an affront to all humanity of course, but he can't elicit the visceral hate that an O'Leary or a Nygard can. The rage is much stronger when they come from where you are.

Starmer being a notable exception. He's like, if Superman was a Golgothan Shit Demon, Starmer is Clark Kent.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://growers.social/users/jpaskaruk/statuses/116483623737039846https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://growers.social/users/jpaskaruk/statuses/116483623737039846Tue, 28 Apr 2026 17:57:23 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 9GW datacentre approved. on Tue, 28 Apr 2026 17:56:02 GMT]]>@rupert @VATVSLPR @quixoticgeek I wonder how all 680 miles of that pipeline are going to be defended 24/7?

The rest of the world - and plenty of Americans - would have good reason for blowing it up. Although ... the USA has decided that the new world order is that you can just bomb the shit out of whoever and whatever you like without bothering to think of a justification, so that's even easier.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://c.im/users/TimWardCam/statuses/116483618374028016https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://c.im/users/TimWardCam/statuses/116483618374028016Tue, 28 Apr 2026 17:56:02 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 9GW datacentre approved. on Tue, 28 Apr 2026 17:49:48 GMT]]>@ehproque @quixoticgeek
They claim they will pump groundwater, purify it because it is too salty as is, then send the hot water to the Great Salt Lake. This site is a long ways from the Colorado River.
There is ample area out the covered only in salt grass to install enough solar power including batteries for nights and cloudy days to power the entire united states, let alone some data centers.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://m.ai6yr.org/users/Dougfir/statuses/116483593924150719https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://m.ai6yr.org/users/Dougfir/statuses/116483593924150719Tue, 28 Apr 2026 17:49:48 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 9GW datacentre approved. on Tue, 28 Apr 2026 17:42:48 GMT]]>@VATVSLPR @TimWardCam @quixoticgeek It's who's funding it.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.nz/users/rupert/statuses/116483566355363927https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.nz/users/rupert/statuses/116483566355363927Tue, 28 Apr 2026 17:42:48 GMT