...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?

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

That’s 7.438 trips back to the future

Great Scott!

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.

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

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?

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

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.

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

burn it down harmonica solo

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

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.