Whoa, this is a *wild* stat: “Utah as a whole uses about 4 gigawatts. At full buildout, the Stratos campus is expected to use 9 gigawatts”
Ignoring community opposition, Box Elder County, Utah, has approved a 9 GW data center campus powered by onsite fossil gas. Utah as a whole currently uses 4 GWs. Also: the developers have rights to 13K acre-feet of water in this water-stressed region, most of which will be used by the gas plants.
At contentious meeting, Box Elder County OKs massive data center project backed by a celebrity investor
Facing hundreds of protesters who oppose the project, the Box Elder County Commission cast its final vote on a massive data center campus.
