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.
If that’s going to be one humongous superstructure, zoned inside, then if this fails, they might get a new city. Superstructures like this are nice, just nobody usually builds them (after 50s and 60s, I suppose) for residential areas.
One can repurpose the space for multi-story apartments (I suppose ceilings will be much higher than needed), or malls, or literally everything.
Or factories, if there are problems with exporting orders to southeast Asia.
If this even gets built.
Or if it doesn’t fail, then heat and noise pollution, I suppose. And grid load. Not nice.