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Kevin O'Leary's Massive Data Center Project in Utah Gets the Greenlight, Locals Are Furious (gizmodo.com)
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cross-posted from: https://piefed.zip/c/technology/p/1462160/kevin-o-leary-s-massive-data-center-project-in-utah-gets-the-greenlight-locals-are-furious

The project would be more than twice the size of Manhattan and could consume more electricity than the entire state currently uses. > > Some quotes near the end that I want to point out. > > For his part, O’Leary has claimed, without evidence, that much of the opposition to the project was “paid” and that the meeting was filled with “professional protestors.” > “We think that over 90% of the protestors are actually not people that live in Utah or Box Elder County. They’re being bussed in,” O’Leary said in a video posted on X. > He also claimed backlash on social media surrounding the project was AI-generated. > > I mean sure, might as well keep using that playbook it's not like it ever stopped working, but at this point I'm shocked these assholes don't just go "And there's nothing you peasants can do about it! Mwauahahaha"

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[–] lmdnw@lemmy.world 35 points 14 hours ago (5 children)

Would be a shame if people in the community were to sabotage the construction and destroy any expensive equipment or materials.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

They're mormons. They'll put a cup of coffee by the construction site and say the devil is in the fiber optics, then pass a bill to ban porn on the internet if it comes from California

[–] Ariselas@piefed.ca 1 points 4 hours ago

All that copper and precious metals, gotta get meth heads off criticality converters and onto data centres

[–] a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world 5 points 8 hours ago

Would be a shame if people kicked Kevin on the balls on sight.

[–] redsand@infosec.pub 9 points 11 hours ago

Did you know all construction equipment is fleet keyed? More shocking, most service panels don't require a key at all. Crazier still, people can print the keys now days, they don't even need the spares on eBay.

[–] its_kim_love@lemmy.blahaj.zone 22 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

All it takes is a pound of sugar to ruin a ton of concrete.

[–] TheGoldenV@lemmy.world 11 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Not as ruined as you’d hope I fear. Plus a literal ton of concrete isn’t that much due to the density. I.e. you’d need a metric f ton of sugar to be effective.

Maybe a pound of gasoline to burn the truck instead?

[–] its_kim_love@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

but when the sugar content exceeds a very small threshold, often cited at around 0.2% to 1% by weight of the cement, the retardation becomes so severe that the concrete may never properly set or gain adequate strength. The sugar essentially prevents the microscopic crystals from growing and interlocking, leaving behind a weak, unusable slurry instead of the intended durable rock.

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1 pound is about .5% well within the necessary amounts, and you do not need to ruin every square foot of concrete to make the structure unusable.

[–] TheGoldenV@lemmy.world 2 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

I know we’re all joking anyway, but the sugar method is stepping over dollars to pick up dimes. They do slump and crush tests on all the concrete poured for anything important.
How would a person execute this plan at scale?

Guess I’m no criminal mastermind, or maybe just no mind at all.

[–] halcyoncmdr@piefed.social 2 points 4 hours ago

They usually pull those samples just before the truck leaves the plant. That doesn't stop someone on site adding some sugar as it's leaving the truck. Construction has one of the biggest day labor usage rates.