The Stratos artificial intelligence datacenter footprint will cover more than 40,000 acres (62 sq miles) over three sites in Box Elder county in north-western Utah. The facility will require about 9GW of power, which is more than the entire state of Utah currently consumes, and suck up a significant amount of water in an area that has been hit by severe drought in recent years.
Gonna be a cool liminal space in the next 5 years when this inevitably fails and gets abandoned
My money is on Ikea acquiring the leftovers to easily set up new locations lol
You mean Costco, à la Idiocracy?
The Democratic People’s Republic of Costco.
I smell future competition