alt Hacker NewsThis is pretty much exactly my gripes, too. Data centers are necessary, but why are we doing this all the wrong way?
The new Utah data center is building new gas pipelines to generate 9GW instead of requiring ANY percentage of green energy, while also giving massive tax breaks that the families living nearby and statewide will have to cover.
For actionable information on this specific project, see:
https://www.breatheutah.org/news/the-stratos-project-questio...
I keep seeing people all over the internet adding the caveat that the data centres are necessary in comments following stories about rollout (and often the stories themselves). But never why that's the case. So the question is why are more data centres necessary at the proposed rollout rates? What actually drives this demand?