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.

https://www.sltrib.com/news/environment/2026/05/07/utahs-data-center-could-create/Open link View original on lemmy.zip

This asinine and misguided project needs to be stopped right now. I'm tired of headlines talking about it as if A anyone wants it other than the billionaires and B it's remotely reasonable even if people did want it.

Peruvian_Skies

sh.itjust.works

Don't worry, it won't get built, just like most other AI datacenters that have been announced.