And think of the extra tax revenue!*

*only from the income of those 26 people, because the data center business itself will get huge tax breaks for building in our state

I know you joke and I did have a chuckle. The tech jobs offered by these projects are so few and far between it is truly laughable.

We’re fighting a data center construction by Google in our area. One of the major obstacles is that blue collar workers, electrical hvac etc, all believe this will bring them new jobs and continued work in maintenance of the facility over the years.

They aren’t necessarily wrong on that point, and it’s a challenge to convince them that infrasound noises they can’t hear will make them sick over time.

I wish they were this excited about building and maintaining solar and wind projects instead of data center generators, but alas, many of them are constantly subjected to propaganda painting green tech in a negative light.

I would suspect department of war at that size

It's weird that it's difficult to identify. But there already is an NSA data center in utah, so maybe it is for the us government. You would think someone would have learned their lesson on how that one turned out?

The only way this kind of massive facility can be profitable is if its builders expect to use it to steal the jobs of legions of white collar workers. That's literally the only way this is profitable.

Based on what Oleary said in his interview with Tucker Carlson, he doesn't have a tenant yet. So billionaires are building these datacenters with the expectation that hyperscalers like Google, Amazon, Microsoft will be renting that compute from them.

Will that actually come to fruition in a way that justifies the billions invested? I guess we will see.

Fuck that electoral bullshit they have guns they could fight if they wanted to.

That just reminded me of 'the nine billion names of god' by Arthur C. Clark.

Mormonism is fascinating to me.

They’re building the Foundry from West World.

They claim the data center is on 62 square miles. Manhattan is 33.6 square miles.

Yeah there is no way that land is all building.