'Shame! Shame! Shame!': Local Residents Furious After Shark Tank Billionaire's Data Center Approved in Utah | Common Dreams
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​The project, which residents were informed of just last week, is expected to more than double Utah's electricity usage, increase its carbon footprint by 50%, and potentially drain even more water from the depleted Great Salt Lake.

Opponents continue to characterize Stratos as a billionaire vanity project to loot Utah’s vast natural resources with little consideration for how it will affect residents.

Utah State University physics professor Robert Davies told Fox 13 that the Great Salt Lake “is occupied by amazing living systems” and that “projects like this go into environments like this and scrape the living systems right off the face of the Earth.”

He said, “This is a private enterprise that is coming in to extract from our natural wealth and pipe it out of the state… and leave us with a few crumbs.”

    • its_kim_love@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      16 days ago

      This is the moment we need solidarity. Just because circumstance has put them on our side we shouldn’t push them away. Just remember that the second this is over they’re going right back to ignorance.