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[Clarence Thomas the Tank Engine @TheRealJChubby]

At a certain point you have to recognize that your government is at war with you.

[Sarrah Bellus @sarrah_bellus]

The American people of Salt Lake City have organized at the Utah State Capitol to protest the republicans for greenlighting Kevin O Leary’s proposed data center.🇺🇸

[nyara @nyaraVT]

There is no “woke mind virus”

it’s called being a decent human being that doesn’t fall for the lies of billionaires

[WTFGOP @doggintrump]

Utah stop this nightmare!

[Olga Nesterova @onestpress]

A $100 billion AI data center in northwest Utah just got county approval despite nearly 4,000 complaints.

It would span 40,000 acres and require 9 gigawatts of power — more than the entire state currently uses.

[Brad @BraddrofliT]

The craziest part?
The wealthy stayed wealthy.
The middle class didn’t get hit.
The sky didn’t fall.

Almost like the panic was always propaganda.

[Ed Krassenstein @EdKrassen]

Hundreds of students at The Watertown High School in Wisconsin walked out of school after the conservative school board, banned a song with no lyrics whatsoever from being played by the school band.

The school board claimed that this song “indoctrinated students and endorsed violence”.

It was “A Mother of a Revolution,” and it had NO LYRICS AT ALL.

[Farm Girl Carrie 👩‍🌾 @FarmGirlCarrie]

This is what local accountability looks like:

In Festus, Missouri, a town of about 14,000 people, the city council quietly approved a $6 billion Ai data center to be built on 360 acres just north of Highway 67.

Residents say they were never properly heard. Meetings were held in private. Documents were released too late. A week after the approval, the town held a regular election. Voter turnout jumped 129 percent.

Every single council member who had voted yes lost in a landslide. A 70-year-old first-time candidate beat an 8-year incumbent by 40 percentage points.

Now a recall petition is circulating to remove the mayor as well. The lawsuit against the city is already filed.

Has your local government ever been held accountable like this? 🔥

[Dave Chadwick - Author @DChadwickAuthor]

Take note, Utah. This is how to do it.

[Anonymous @YourAnonNews]

Shark Tank Billionaire Kevin O'leary says 2 people fighting data centers in Utah are Chinese agents. Turns out its just 2 local girls in Utah, they make a hilarious video calling him the fuck out

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

A massive new hyperscale data center project called Stratos is planned for Box Elder County, Utah. If built, it would demand up to 9 gigawatts of electricity, more than twice the total power consumption of the entire state.

But the real shock comes from the waste heat. According to Utah State University physics professor Robert Davies, the facility would generate an additional 7 to 8 gigawatts of heat, creating a total thermal output of roughly 16 gigawatts concentrated in one location.

That energy release, Davies calculated, is comparable to detonating 23 atomic bombs per day in Hansel Valley, a high desert basin near the shrinking Great Salt Lake that naturally traps heat like a bowl. The project’s energy footprint would also be roughly equal to that of 40,000 Walmart Supercenters.

Local temperatures could rise by about 5°F (2.8°C) during the day and a staggering 28°F (15.6°C) at night. Ecologists warn that such dramatic warming would stress an already fragile ecosystem, worsen toxic dust from the drying lakebed, and disrupt plants, wildlife, and water resources.

As the backbone of artificial intelligence, data centers are essential for every AI query, image, and training run. The Stratos project now raises a critical question: Can the massive infrastructure behind AI expand without permanently transforming, and overheating, the communities and landscapes where it’s built?

["‘So much worse than I even thought’: Utah’s ‘hyperscale’ data center could create massive heat island near Great Salt Lake." The Salt Lake Tribune]

[R @shibadad8]

If the Democratic Party was anything close to Zohran, we would be in for generational change in this country.

[😱 Scary Larry 😱 🇺🇦✊🏻🇺🇸🗽 @aintscarylarry]

trump calls the White House a “shithouse.” Calls a reporter a “bitch.” Screams at Iran: “Open the Fuckin’ Strait, you crazy bastards.” And not a peep from the media. Do not become numb to this. None of this is acceptable. How far we have fallen as a nation

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

Reporter: “To what extent are Americans’ financial situations motivating you to make a deal? [with Iran]”

Trump: “Not even a little bit…. I don't think about Americans’ financial situation”

[Acyn @Acyn]

Trump on Iran War:

Reporter: What extent are Americans’ financial situation motivating you to make a deal?

Trump: Not even a little bit. I don't think about Americans’ financial situation

[Fergenstein @BiigRED_95]

How do you read things like this and not want them GONE

[Covie @covie_93]

Check the computers of those 21 Republicans.

[Micah Erfan @micah_erfan]

Republican policies kill people.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Colorado just told 1.5 million people they can't water their lawns. The state is still green-lighting AI data centers that each drink as much water as a town of 50,000 people. Reservoirs at historic lows.

One Colorado Springs utility has 95,000 acre-feet of total water access. Ten data centers are in line asking for up to 117,000. If every project gets approved, the utility has to more than double its entire water supply. None of those data centers exist yet. The inquiries already exceed what the system holds.

On March 16, Governor Polis activated Phase 2 of the state's Drought Response Plan. First time in nearly six years. Nine days later, Denver Water declared Stage 1 drought and put mandatory watering restrictions on 1.5 million customers. First time since 2013. Federal managers ranked this year's snowpack 45th out of 46 years on record.

Two days before the Denver Water vote, the only bill that would have required data centers to publicly report water use died in a Colorado Senate committee.

The state has 56 small data centers today. QTS Realty Trust is building Colorado's first hyperscale east of Denver. It qualified to build in Aurora because city code now prohibits new evaporative cooling. Denver has no equivalent rule.

A single hyperscale pulls as much water as a town of 50,000 people for cooling. The power plants behind it pull more. On-site water use across five Western states is projected at 21,600 acre-feet by 2035. Counting upstream electricity generation, it climbs to 89,700.

Xcel projects Colorado data centers will need 8.5 gigawatts by 2040. Roughly another Denver metro's worth of power.

Global AI bought 400 acres near Windsor for a campus targeting 1,000 megawatts.

Colorado's alfalfa farms used 394 billion gallons last year. The water budget was already overdrawn before the cooling towers came online.

Disclosure was the floor. The bill still died.