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.

  • Paranoid Factoid@lemmy.world
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    3 hours ago

    What are these data centers to be used for? People say AI, but that’s not specific enough. This shit is surveillance state.

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      2 hours ago

      AI for the surveillance state.
      Sort of like the center point of skynet.
      Soon there will be heavily armed autonomous mechs walking the perimeter shooting everything organic within 100m the property border