Thread: Data Center Threat Is Waking People Up to the EVIL of Big Tech | + Stratos Project

Originally Posted by GaiaGoddess

‘So much worse than I even thought’: Utah’s ‘hyperscale’ data center could create massive heat island near Great Salt Lake

Utah scientists fear the proposed Stratos Project would generate enough heat to alter temperatures, strain wildlife and intensify environmental threats around the Great Salt Lake.

This is an outrage.

From the article, "... the Stratos Project, became public last month. The project’s boosters say it will likely need 9 gigawatts of energy at full build — more than double the electricity currently used by the entire state of Utah. That energy will likely come from a pipeline carrying natural gas from Wyoming to Nevada, Oregon and California ..."

My comment:
Well, what happens to all that natural gas that Nevada, Oregon and California were going to have available to them (citizens, agriculture, etc.)?!

Plus, "... All the heat the Stratos Project emits will add up to another 7 to 8 gigawatts of energy ... of waste heat ... [making] the data complex a 16 gigawatt thermal load project, the 'equivalent of about 23 atom bombs worth of energy dumped into this local environment every single day' ..."

And, "... it would take around 3,600 of those industrial-scale generators to power Stratos — the equivalent of thousands of diesel engines idling around the clock. 'That’s going to release an enormous amount of heat,' Mitchell said."