The class system in the US has never been more on display with the datacenter build outs. A senator who attacks a journalist gets them threatened by the police. Town halls to listen to local "concerns" are charades where they look for any excuse to arrest anyone who voices opposition [1].
[1] https://www.newson6.com/tulsa-oklahoma-news/arrest-made-duri...
There's something very very wrong with that.
[1] https://fortune.com/2026/05/06/ai-data-center-michigan-salin...
I guess this is what they mean when they say they want to "run government like a business:" They mean run government to enrich themselves and be totally unaccountable to the public.
How would the datacenter lead to higher taxes and bills? Genuinely curious.
It looks like much more like 50% of new datacenter capacity is for AI workloads.
People are drowning everywhere with inflation and anything that is perceived to lead to a higher monthly bill is going to encounter resistance.
Not to mention it's being given an 80% tax break, and the air quality is Salt Lake City being the worst in the world on bad days (the plan is for this data center to be natural gas powered).
The entire State of Utah, *combined* consumes less than half that much energy.
1. The story is not about one of Utah's 2 US senators, but about one of its state senators. The title should probably say "Utah state senator."
2. There is a missing apostrophe in "reporter's"
I'm with you on that!
An additional fun (?) fact is that Nebraska has only senators, not state representatives, due to having a unicameral legislature unlike all the other states and the federal government. The members of Nebraska's single-house legislature are customarily called "senators," and they're also officially non-partisan, though in the modern era this is just a fig leaf and their partisan political affiliations are clear.
Come to the dark side…darnit, I learned something new today.
Kevin O'Leary’s Biggest Scam Yet: https://youtu.be/RWoV0EXxa7c