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.
This randomly reminds me of when I played a game in a server with mostly Vietnam players and they were constantly complaining how because it wasn’t in their market everything cost massive amounts of dong in the game shop.