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.
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.