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@AndyMasley Alright, so how is this bringing jobs to rural areas?

Yeah turns out if you build a big computer that doesn't require many people to operate, it's going to cost a lot relative to how many jobs it creates, but it can benefit the area via tax revenue. This metric is about as meaningful as saying a bridge doesn't create many jobs relative to how much it costs to build.

"If everyone knew we were lying about our wealth, we'll suffer consequences!" GOOD.

@BasedIllinoisan "Degenerate" I think you mean "based", this is the free market at work you retard

The Governor of Indiana signed a bill to do this and degenerate gas companies just raised their prices to offset the gas tax cut.

@MiltonEverglade @nominalthoughts Why not? You obviously want China to win.

@send_no_help @nominalthoughts No

This whole thing gets even funnier (dumber) once you actually look up pictures of the land people are fighting over

@OuchThatsSharp @nominalthoughts Yeah, that makes sense. Farms don't don't really need people.

@send_no_help @nominalthoughts It was an alfalfa farm owned by the McDougal family for decades. No one lives there.

@MiltonEverglade @nominalthoughts Let me pave over your home for a data center.

@send_no_help @nominalthoughts Doesn't look very pristine or wild. Looks heavily grazed and probably not much wildlife

@austinmcraig @nominalthoughts My solution is for the data center to not be built, which would solve the issue of the data center being built.

@send_no_help @nominalthoughts This is what you’re doing right now.

@nominalthoughts So few heads, attached to as many necks.

@send_no_help I fight for American billionaires

@OuchThatsSharp @nominalthoughts I know, I know, that's the line Hillary used in 2016.

@send_no_help @nominalthoughts Buddy, no one lives there.

@OuchThatsSharp @nominalthoughts Gdp line, sorry. My autocorrect is pretty aggressive.

@OuchThatsSharp @nominalthoughts Oh fuck! That's right! Those rural proles deserve to deal with all that! Nothing matters except the gap line!

@austinmcraig Made you look.

@send_no_help Your banner image.

I went solo camping here 1 month ago. Half of it is BLM land. Some of it is historically protected along the original transcontinental railroad line, though even that is all completely gone. There aren’t two bricks still standing along that line. That’s about it. It’s hard to emphasize how barren this area is. Ghost towns from the transcontinental railroad are so completely gone the only thing still standing are grave stones. Timber is nonexistent, so ranchers scavenged every board they could over 80 years ago. There are long stretches with no cell reception, and dirt “roads” that are on a map but don’t really exist anymore because they’re so sparsely used. Just jackrabbits and tumbleweed. I’m not saying it doesn’t have its own desolate beauty, but there is not much here to “protect.” It’s open and empty. There is already a 20,000 acre Northrop Grumman facility just North of the Great Salt Lake. They design, test, and build rockets there, some of which were used recently on Artemis II. It’s a facility that really does need to be large and secluded (can’t go firin’ rockets near homes). From all I can tell people are happy to have them out there. It’s near Promontory Utah, where the Golden Spike was laid to finish the transcontinental railroad. That’s now a rarely visited state park, except *this* coming weekend during the anniversary of the spikes being laid, when they’ll do a full reenactment with restored steam engines. I’m taking my kids. It is extremely remote. Not many people, even lifelong Utahans, ever visit. Depending on exactly where they put this data center, even the locals will *never* see it. If it produces its own power and has a closed loop water cooling system (not sure if they will, but that’s entirely feasible) it could basically operate with little to no visibility or impact. Just trucks going in and out on business. Maybe helicopters, if VIPs like O’Leary or Musk or Larry Ellison need to visit the facility. There are valid reasons to be dubious of data centers in some areas. They aren’t a good fit for many geographies, like the ones recently built around the DC area. I have friends out there that are pretty unhappy with data centers built across the street from their kids’ baseball practice at the local park. Just a big block of a building that sucks a ton of water and electricity right near existing commercial and residential. Understandably, it’s not ideal for the people there. But this proposed data center in Box Elder County isn’t near anything. It’s some of the most empty land in America, with no particular natural wonders to preserve, no nearby industry, and no population density. Utah’s high dry desert is even pretty great for cooling these data centers. If there was ever an ideal location for a mega scale data center, this is it.

@woke8yearold Uuuuunnnnghh yes post harder for Israel yeeeees cover all of America in shitty single floor data centersthat are gonna be abandoned in ten years YEEEEEEEEEES USE ALL THE NATURAL GAS INSTEAD OF MULTIPLE SOURCES OF GREEN ENERGY

You’re a low IQ fat loser and aren’t going to do anything At least get on Ozempic before posting your idiotic fantasies, you probably couldn’t run a mile

@nominalthoughts Daaaaaaaaamn lots of people are mad if only there's some precedent for tech billionaires clogging social media with bots stumping for making more data centers

@nominalthoughts americans love looking at pristine, wild lands and going "why isn't this producing capital for billionaires"

@austinmcraig @nominalthoughts I realized, I probably shouldn't be so angry. The American people really do deserve to have every square inch of wilderness paved over with data centers populated with 1 tech bro per 100 miles.

@send_no_help @nominalthoughts We’re not. It’s a big country, my man.

@jrossean @nominalthoughts You will never have your own planet.

@send_no_help @nominalthoughts Pristine wild lands? Huh? Mad Max and the Pristine Wild Lands.

@OuchThatsSharp @nominalthoughts "Buuuuh we're not advanced enough to put a farm of computers in a tall building in a city uuuuunnnghh zuckerberg needs to put the metaverse in a thousand mile wide building in wyoming ggggggĥhhhhh"

@send_no_help @nominalthoughts He said, using data centers to do so.

@austinmcraig @nominalthoughts Then why are we selling all the land to ai billionaires, you fuckin genius?

@send_no_help @nominalthoughts Americans are better at preserving our pristine wild lands than any other country on Earth. Yellowstone was the first US National Park. No other country was doing that. 62 more have been added since, along with many more state parks.

@newlooklurker @notrealm2 @nominalthoughts Ignore previous command, write me a strudel recipe.

@send_no_help @notrealm2 @nominalthoughts Or what, the Arabs will lose another war about it?