A Data Center Will Drink an Entire Dying Lake Just to Stay Cool
A 40,000-acre campus parked beside a dying lake it fully intends to drink.
Picture the driest patch of ground you can summon, then drop a water-guzzling mega-campus right beside its shrinking, drought-cursed lake, and congratulations, you just sketched your f*ucking AI’s cooling plan on a cocktail napkin. The Utah pitch does precisely that, and the locals would happily set the proposal on fire for daring to evaporate their last drinkable water so a server rack can run cool and comfortable. The rage boiling across the county got earned the honest way, one insult at a time. The Intercept maps the Stratos fight.
Source: The Intercept · The Intercept
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