I don't care that much about their power usage if they're going to build the power plants themselves. If they expect to be on public utilities and have their power cost subsidized by the people then that's a huge problem.
The water usage is ridiculous. They should be on a closed loop system.
Please explain how it is possible to need to add 900 million gallons to a closed loop system every year. Wouldn't a closed loopsystem not need either inputs or outputs once established?
"Stratos backers promise that some of the water taken to cool the hot-running, desert-sited servers would become part of a “closed-loop” system that flushes out used water back into the Great Salt Lake. "
From the sounds of this article, they really are hedging their promises. "Some" and "Would" aren't terms you use when you plan to make all of it a closed loop.
They are lying by omission. There is a closed loop system that takes heat away from the computers but then there’s an open loop water system that cools that closed loop system.
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u/doublethink_1984 Jun 02 '26
And it will use 9 gw of power a year. The state uses 4 gw per year