...the campus would reach 9 GW, all produced on-site through a connection to the Ruby Pipeline, a 680-mile interstate natural gas line that crosses northern Utah on its route from Wyoming to Oregon

This is so exciting! Hey Wyoming and Oregon, aren't you so excited for your natural gas prices to increase?

Hideakikarate@sh.itjust.works · 11 pts · 125d

And I'd be willing to bet that Wyoming and Oregon had even less say in its construction.

Witchfire@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 125d

...and the people of Utah will pay for the increased power costs

homes@piefed.world · 23 pts · 125d

That’s 7.438 trips back to the future

Great Scott!

ivanafterall@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 125d (4 replies)

I moved from Utah around the time they were having a drought so severe the Governor advised praying for rain.

Anyway, hopefully this doesn't need too much water. I'm sure it won't be an issue.

HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 124d (3 replies)

You realize how little that narrows it down

Also maybe they can use all the water they're pumping out of Heber

JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 124d (2 replies)

Hey the Jordanelle wasn't meant to hold water!

HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 124d (1 reply)

right and i bet the mormon pope doesn't shit in the woods neither

JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 124d

I used to live in the Deer Valley housing beneath the dam. They don't tell you it's directly over a fault line

rounding_error@lemmy.today · 16 pts · 125d (1 reply)

LemmyFeed@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 10 pts · 125d

What an asshole

Humana@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 125d

But how much water? This winter the Rockies had their lowest recorded precipitation ever

WalrusDragonOnABike@reddthat.com · 9 pts · 125d (1 reply)

O'Leary Digital is also developing a companion Wonder Valley campus in Alberta, Canada, announced in 2024, which has not yet broken ground.

So this is probably just part of the charade of fake promises to make circular payments between a handful of companies that will not ever even show up in quarterly/annual report or affect planned production by any of the players that would be needed to supply computer hardware to actually make such actually possible like so many other of these projects, presumably to make number-go-up now?

Brown5500@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 125d

Caterpillar is supposed to provide the natural gas generators for this project and they have been pretty publicly excited about that. They seem to believe that the orders are at least real.

HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 124d

Huh. I wonder what this will do to the great arsenic lake

OrteilGenou@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 124d

So, this might be a silly question but, why not use the saltwater to cool the data center while using the heat to capture and condense fresh water, then transfer it to the local community for use as drinking water?

Oh what's that? Fuck me? Who said that? Kevin O'Leary? TV's Kevin O'Leary? We'll that's decidedly un-Canadian of him.

Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de · 5 pts · 124d

Do you think even 1 GW will be built, or will they go bankrupt before?

SandraBollocks@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 125d

burn it down harmonica solo

Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 125d

Oh don't worry, they'll never build it.

quick_snail@feddit.nl · -1 pts · 124d (2 replies)

I really don't care. Energy is abundant.

Easy solution: just require them to fund the creation of renewable energy plants (wind or solar) which generate 200% of their daily usage every 24 hours. When those plants have been built and output is measured to meet their usage, they can begin construction. easy.

GalacticGrapefruit@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 124d

The Great Salt Lake is drying up, exposing an urban center with a population of over a million people to airborne arsenic, selenium, and radioactive elements that would otherwise be locked in the lakebed.

Around 30% of the population of Salt Lake County is under the age of 18.

Give a shit. Please.

Raiderkev@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 124d

Psst, I don't think the guy who's bought by oil and gas is going to do that.