Ryan Griffith

@rocks_boffin pull your weeds

told my wife to tool up. we bout to go to war

@Manhattva @NormieUtah What are we even doing Democrat in office and all he can give a town-hall lecture about is a Democrat talking point from 2016

This is making me crash out.

@thurston_the project approved jobs needed GC’s argue they don’t have enough labor Justification for the legislature to go soft on illegals and invite/import more of them here

I know this is an unpopular opinion but think of how many construction jobs this will create. Utah needs real jobs like this our economy needs more than what we have. Utahns Northern Territory’s will be blessed because of this, construction is our life blood. Soon it will be more than that.

@suntzo_2 @kevinolearytv Maybe. But that wasn’t the point of the comment. The comment was to say people aren’t being bussed in from out of state. The people at the hearing were the would-be-affected populace

@Griffith4Utah @kevinolearytv Positive consequences, more jobs, more people moving into the area, increased tax base😎

I’m the only developer of data centers on earth that graduated from environmental studies. I'm pretty aware of what these concerns are. They are around air, water use, heat, noise pollution. So sustainability is at the heart of what we do in terms of all these proposals. We search for the best technology. There's many air-cooled turbines now, so you're blending in air-cooled versus water. There's so many different ways to generate power. We can also put a percentage of the power generation through solar, wind, and batteries because the battery technology is 10X more efficient than it was just five years ago. So that's very helpful because it makes the cost of energy lower.

@suntzo_2 @kevinolearytv Many people came from outside of BE county since it’s relatively low in population numbers But the consequences of the data center would affect almost all of Davis, SLC, and Utah Counties

@Griffith4Utah @kevinolearytv Bussed in from other parts of Utah🤷‍♂️

@MarinasHammer Prestar is "to lend" anyway

Utah is invaded! Why does a Utah public school library have signs in English, Spanish, and Arabic?!?! Submitted by a follower from Canyons School District in Sandy, UT.

Fair argument. I'm convinced in favor of it now. That said, I'd also like clarity on the water needed for the power generation and mandates to hire locally for construction and staffing the plant afterwards. We can't accept the proposal on the premise of it boosting employment and tax dollars if the employment is bussed in from out of state or out of country.

The conversation around Stratos has gotten badly unmoored from the actual proposal, and it’s worth addressing the biggest misconceptions before the vote. The loudest claim is that this project will draw more power than the entire state. True at full buildout. Beside the point, because Stratos generates its own power on site. It doesn't draw from the public grid. Last year the legislature passed SB 132 precisely for large private loads that build and operate their own generation off-grid. Utah's existing 4 GW stays where it is. Electricity bills won’t go up because of this project. The "more than the whole state" line sounds scary to some, but falls apart the second you dig in. The water claim deserves more care than it's been getting. The water rights at issue are existing agricultural rights. Bar H Ranch is transferring 1,900 acre-feet currently used for irrigation. This is not new pressure on the basin, but a reallocation. The data center cooling itself is closed-loop. The gas plant will use some water for power generation, and we should want the developer to specify how much; that's a fair ask. But the framing that Stratos is "draining the lake" assumes new diversions that don't exist in the actual filings. The Great Salt Lake is in real trouble, and most of that trouble has names. Stratos isn't one of them. The tax-giveaway argument frustrates me the most, because it imagines a counterfactual that doesn't exist and ignores the actual math. The reduced energy is the price of getting the project to land here instead of in Texas or Wyoming. Even at 0.5%, the county pulls in roughly $30M a year in Phase 1, and over $100M annually at full buildout. The state pulls in roughly $49M. The developer is prepaying the county $5.4M a year for the first three years to fund emergency services before tax revenue starts. The developer is paying for every road, sewer line, and stormwater system in the project area and deeding it to the county. If specialized fire equipment is needed, the developer pays for that too. Two thousand permanent jobs in a part of Utah that has been waiting a long time for a real employer. None of that exists if the answer is no. And the site is the part of the case I keep waiting for someone to make. Hansel Valley is unincorporated, sparsely populated, sits on the Ruby Pipeline, and is adjacent to military infrastructure with strong reasons to want resilient on-site power. The land is doing nothing else. It has been, in policy terms, waiting for this. I'll grant the strongest version of the critique. The process moved fast, and the commissioners felt blindsided. That's a real complaint and worth fixing in how these things come to the county next time. But the choice today isn't between this Stratos and a better Stratos. It's between this Stratos and the same project getting built somewhere else. The country has decided, at the level of abstraction, that it wants to lead on AI. You don't get to keep saying yes to the abstraction and no to every concrete project that would make the abstraction real.

@FrenlyOfficer @realarmaansidhu You taking this from Tom Simon on Matt Cox’s podcast?

@realarmaansidhu Thank you for this very enlightening LLM written explanation of my joke. It did a good job.

Did you know that if you combine Xanax with a Gin and Tonic while boarding a flight from Los Angeles to Hawaii you can instantly teleport from your seat on the LAX tarmac to a federal jail cell in Honolulu?

@CoalitionUtah Importing tens of thousands of illegals to fill the need, obviously.

Who gets the construction jobs for the new data center? Would love a firm answer on that.

Maybe the reason everyone in Utah is in a constant state of road rage is because city planners do crap like this: To get onto this (extremely busy) highway, you have 3 seconds to get up to 60mph and then your lane just ends. It's merge or hit a concrete wall.

@carsenlcooper @DaylanAlzamora "we can't legislate morality" falls apart when you realize every law passed is a legislation of morality.

@DaylanAlzamora We should ban porn, but don’t forget that we can’t legislate morality. That is engrained in the home and our communities.

We must ban porn, the libertarian arguement has failed us.

How to become a prime target for enemy nuclear and kinetic bomb attacks: Put the world’s largest data center in your backyard

@RickWritesNow @GovCox This would be cool if it were true

I've always liked @GovCox, even when I politically disagreed with him - but he's changed, he's more Trumpian, he's cutting backroom deals, he's tilting further to the right every day. He's turning dirty, and can't be trusted as a leader any longer. #disappointed #utpol

@kathyballardwvc @AdamSmooth321 @MichelleLQuist @GovCox @SpencerJCox @JakeLeei So your argument is: there are downsides when only men make decisions (lack of empathy) but there are zero downsides when only women govern nice.

@AdamSmooth321 @MichelleLQuist @GovCox @SpencerJCox @JakeLeei I know so many competent women, I will never believe that. So many capable men too, but right now our male leadership are a hunch of yahoos.

This entire nominating commission should be disbanded. I’m embarrassed for them. And outraged. @GovCox @SpencerJCox @JakeLeei

@MichelleLQuist Great news

The Utah Supreme Court had a female majority for the first time in its history in 2022. The Utah Legislature then passed at least 2 bills affecting the makeup of the Sup Ct so that we are now back to a male majority. Utah. #utpol

@natemaklocklin Changed in 2015. Right after Gay Marriage was legalized

Doesn’t even go close to as hard as Provo, Utah’s old flag.

Only 1 Congressman from #utah voted to strip the glyphosate immunity from the farm bill! 🤦‍♂️😭 @CelesteMaloyUT voted to give chemical manufacturers immunity so you cannot sue if their product gives you cancer 👀 Why do you think she voted that way? Was it for a donor? @RepMaloyUtah

A friend in a RED suburban county in Texas just told me their elementary school did a poll on languages spoken at home. English came in FOURTH PLACE behind Spanish, Farsi, and an other…. Pass the PAUSE Act. Now.

Same as the bill that we had in the U.S. House Massie proposed an amendment against the kill switch and monitoring The Democrats and 51 republicans voted against the amendment and advance the surveillance tech. Traitorous.