The lying and catastrophizing regarding AI Data Centers is reaching critical mass

I mean, they certainly aren’t good to live near. Are you trying to say otherwise?

Wow, ANOTHER person that hasn’t watched Terminator 2.

Being a resident of Utah, and fairly familiar with that part of the world (Box elder County) my biggest issue here is the power consumption. Unless they're building a nuke plant onsite to power it, there is no way we have the infrastructure to get that much power to that location. The location is SUPER remote. (SO remote that the google street view cars have never made it there... )

The biggest problem they are gong to face is finding the amount of fresh water they are going to need. The surface and groundwater sources there are all high in salt because of the previous elevations of the Great Salt Lake. .

What about the situation involving Lake Tahoe where their power supplier is going to drop them because the data centers need the energy more?

How long are we going to keep the data centers before the next great leap in innovation makes them obsolete? What do we do with the boxes then? More fulfillment centers (my grandparents called them warehouses, but that sounds lame).

There is one dude in West Feliciana (he is barely literate) who shares every anti-AI post he comes across into the town/parish groups. If anybody points out something that isn't accurate they get called a libtard even though most of the stuff he's sharing is from wacko lefty pages.

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centers are bringing much needed jobs and stability to main street USA

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Until construction is over, then there will be a skeleton crew to rack and stack, electrical and HVAC contractors that show up once every 30 days, and everything else will be done remotely.

A data center is a data center is a data center. No tax incentives for any of them.

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Unless they're building a nuke plant onsite to power it, there is no way we have the infrastructure to get that much power

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I barely follow any of this stuff but read they are building 10 power plants for the Meta Center here in LA. Sounds like they already though of this.

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I think of this as more of an indictment on the energy policies over the past 20+ years, solar and wind turbines are "great" on paper but at what cost in terms of scaling up power on demand?

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I won't disagree about energy policy, but in this case, it's more than that. Even if we had a surplus of power, at the present time, there's no way to get it to this location.