Totally unrelated fun fact, but I heard a few pounds of sugar can do significant damage to a truckload of concrete if mixed in.
this post was submitted on 07 May 2026
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Who is this data center even for though? Like, who is the customer of a data center this large? Are AWS availabilty zones even cmose to this large?
I mean really, who is leasing this equipment?
They'll sell it to slc for fifty bil
“Paid professional protesters.”
These clowns haven’t had an original lie in over a decade.
Data Centers have woefully low levels of security per kilogram of copper held within.
I live in Utah. This passed unanimously after the councilmembers ran to a private room and didn't take public comment. Protesters most certainly were not bussed in and the public truly is pissed. While the vote passed I doubt this is over.
Who is this temu Picard?
shark tank
shark tank
yes, yes we'll get to that, but first, who is he?
/s
Does he even live in Utah?
so very on point: YOU CAN'T TRUST THESE PEOPLE, THEY'RE OUTSIDERS!
says the outsider wanting to use all their power and water for a datacenter
Said the only man in the room rich enough to have people bussed in for a council meeting.
No, his houses are in Boston and somewhere in Florida.
Enhance.
Nope. He's killing people on lakes around Muskoka, Canada.
That was his wife and it was dark.
I'm doing it so I should blame my opponents of doing it
O'Leary
Would be a shame if people in the community were to sabotage the construction and destroy any expensive equipment or materials.
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
All that copper and precious metals, gotta get meth heads off criticality converters and onto data centres
Would be a shame if people kicked Kevin on the balls on sight.
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.
All it takes is a pound of sugar to ruin a ton of concrete.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
I hope this ghoul sinks all of his money into this bubble and dies penniless. I know it won’t happen but a gal can dream.
Very high chance of this.
Kevin O'Leary is a chronic loser. He typically heads investment funds and they typically lose. His own O'Leary fund underperformed until it had to be sold off. He made some money on a $3B software deal with Mattel that lost Mattel $3B.
Small wonder he loves Trump.
Kevin O'Leary and AI data centres go together like flies and shit.
Can we just stop doing capitalism already? I've seen enough of it by now.
MMW. Kevin O'Leary will be the first person in history to be executed via wristwatch. I don't know how. I just know that.
I kind of hope he gets eaten by a shark, it would be so delicious.
If Sharks weren't scared shitless of Orcas they could team up next time he goes on a boat.
Orcas wearing Kevin O'leary's head as a fashion statement?