Stop the Slavic Village Data Center - Townhall Meeting May 23rd
There's a community meeting May 23rd at 4PM at Community of Faith Assembly (5949 Engel Ave) about the giant data center somebody's trying to drop on Slavic Village. The thing would pull 150 megawatts - enough juice to run 100,000 homes - which means your power bill is about to get interesting, and the heat coming off these places is wild (Utah's proposed one would dump the thermal equivalent of 23 atom bombs a day into its valley). Even with the fancy "closed-loop" cooling they're pitching, hyperscale data centers chug millions of gallons of water, and they're talking about tapping the sewer district's stormwater tunnel. And the kicker - these things create maybe a few dozen permanent jobs while hosting the AI that's already wiping out entry-level white collar work across the country. Show up on the 23rd.
AI has real benevolent uses - climate modeling, green building design, cancer research, drug discovery. None of that is what's being built at hyperscale right now. The current AI build-out isn't optimizing for any of that. It's optimizing for surveillance, market dominance, and the displacement of workers, paid for with our water, our power grid, and our privacy. Unchecked growth at this scale isn't for the benefit of humanity. It's for the benefit of whoever controls the tech.