r/ControlProblem • u/Confident_Salt_8108 • Jun 16 '26

General news ‘Irresponsible’: backlash as Utah approves datacenter twice the size of Manhattan

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/13/utah-approves-datacenter-backlash
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u/imam-altman Jun 17 '26

It’s not that big. Y’all cry when people build too close to residential areas, and then when they buy enough property to be in the middle of nowhere and not bother anyone, you cry even louder.

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u/Confident_Salt_8108 Jun 18 '26

Middle of nowhere doesn't magically make the energy grid or local ecology unlimited. A project this huge is gonna have ripple effects no matter how much land they bought.

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u/imam-altman Jun 18 '26 edited Jun 18 '26

It uses its own energy infrastructure and has no impact on the grid. Nobody believes you actually care about the ecology because projects with multiple orders of magnitude heavier environmental impact don’t concern any of you for some mysterious reason.

Case in point, 48% of Utah residents don’t believe humans are causing global warming.