The energy the data center will come in from the natural gas pipeline. Now that pipeline isn’t getting fatter; so 2X what Utah currently consumes in energy is going to come from Natual Gas
What do you imagine tripling the demand will do to a limited supply resource? Will Gas and Electricity go up? The Law of Supply and Demand dictates that prices will go up. Triple is a conservative guess.
Guess who gets a tax discount when that happens. Nope, not the people
People in Boxelder County showed up in record numbers to protest. The committee voted against the constituents anyway. 3:0 and that was it. It was a formality, and we are all getting data centers that will raise utilities and destroy our environments so they can mine our personal data. It’s not good
I’m well aware of how supply and demand works. I’m also aware of trade offs when it comes to energy use. Correct me if I’m wrong but didn’t Trump anticipate that problem and sign an EO requiring data centers to fund their own energy to keep it from raising prices on the surrounding populations? Was the Utah data center planning on not following that or what?
The data center will generate their own power, but use natural gas to do it. There is a plan to just tap off the gas pipelines already in place. Again this is taking almost 2x as much power as the entire state takes. I am not aware of any additional pipelines being added.
Every winter, SLC and everyone up and down the SL valley enjoy inversions. It’s been bad for more than a decade. Well, now it’s going to be ~3x worse. That’s a lot of carbon dioxide that is going to be added.
Cooling will likely get dumped into the Great Salt lake and whatever local streams are there. Neglecting the waste added to the water by this data center; there are very limited upsides.
The energy the data center will come in from the natural gas pipeline. Now that pipeline isn’t getting fatter; so 2X what Utah currently consumes in energy is going to come from Natual Gas What do you imagine tripling the demand will do to a limited supply resource? Will Gas and Electricity go up? The Law of Supply and Demand dictates that prices will go up. Triple is a conservative guess.
Guess who gets a tax discount when that happens. Nope, not the people
People in Boxelder County showed up in record numbers to protest. The committee voted against the constituents anyway. 3:0 and that was it. It was a formality, and we are all getting data centers that will raise utilities and destroy our environments so they can mine our personal data. It’s not good
I’m well aware of how supply and demand works. I’m also aware of trade offs when it comes to energy use. Correct me if I’m wrong but didn’t Trump anticipate that problem and sign an EO requiring data centers to fund their own energy to keep it from raising prices on the surrounding populations? Was the Utah data center planning on not following that or what?
The data center will generate their own power, but use natural gas to do it. There is a plan to just tap off the gas pipelines already in place. Again this is taking almost 2x as much power as the entire state takes. I am not aware of any additional pipelines being added.
Every winter, SLC and everyone up and down the SL valley enjoy inversions. It’s been bad for more than a decade. Well, now it’s going to be ~3x worse. That’s a lot of carbon dioxide that is going to be added.
Cooling will likely get dumped into the Great Salt lake and whatever local streams are there. Neglecting the waste added to the water by this data center; there are very limited upsides.