Junior Case

日本一のサンタクロースが一年中クリスマスの魔法をお届けします。 出演、イベント、カスタムビデオメッセージも承ります。

[Junior Case @JuniorCase]

@Furbeti According to Wikipedia “The United States presidential limousine, famously known as "The Beast," is estimated to weigh between 15,000 and 20,000 pounds (roughly 7.5 to 10 tons, or 6,800 to 9,100 kilograms).”

[Junior Case @JuniorCase]

@icreatelife @FutureVibesAi @ImagineArt_X

[Junior Case @JuniorCase]

@icreatelife I am. I’ve spent my life as a performer: actor, dancer, singer, voice actor, and Santa Claus in Japan.

Now I’m building that into storytelling, content, writing, and a Santa/Christmas brand blending Western magic with Japanese culture.

Tiny parachute. Big cliff. We jump anyway.

[Junior Case @JuniorCase]

@Taaruk_ Fun! Thanks!

[Junior Case @JuniorCase]

@icreatelife

[Junior Case @JuniorCase]

@icreatelife Fun! Thanks @icreatelife!

[Junior Case @JuniorCase]

@azed_ai So freaking cute! Thanks!

[Junior Case @JuniorCase]

@oggii_0 @SocialSight Santa’s Village

[Junior Case @JuniorCase]

@noorwithwifi

[Junior Case @JuniorCase]

@noorwithwifi

[Junior Case @JuniorCase]

@icreatelife Too silly! Thanks!🙏

[Junior Case @JuniorCase]

@icreatelife Ok this has potential! Too much fun!
Thank you!

[Junior Case @JuniorCase]

@icreatelife Decided to go mythical Japanese creatures!

[Junior Case @JuniorCase]

@icreatelife This is pretty epic! Thanks for the prompt 🤣

[Christopher Koopman @ckoopman]

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.

[Junior Case @JuniorCase]

@DaveV1954 @Eternal_Saints_

[Junior Case @JuniorCase]

@keknocracy @MarinasHammer What exactly is your definition of an AI slave grid?

[Junior Case @JuniorCase]

@keknocracy @MarinasHammer My question becomes why aren’t we protesting golf courses???

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@nicwebby @MarinasHammer The project creates its own power plants and is supposed to be a net increase on the grid so prices shouldn’t go up