Kevin O’Leary plans to build our countries biggest AI data center right next a dying Great Salt Lake. According to Grow The Flow Utah, The Great Salt Lake’s ecosystem is on the verge of collapse. The Great salt Lake is  36% full and we must reduce all water in the salt lake’s basin by 30%. O’Leary’s data center is expected to significantly increase the basin’s water usage. Project developers have claimed that the data center will have “low” or “net zero” water usage but they have no research to prove these claims. If this data center dries up the Great Salt Lake, it will release dust storms full of arsenic that can bring lung diseases, cancer, or even death.

On top of the drying up of the Great Salt Lake, O’Leary’s data center will use 9 gigawatts of power per year which will over double the entire state of Utah’s 4 gigawatts of power per year. The data center’s developers claimed that “air quality models have been done” but no models were produced, no modeler was named, and no results were shared. 

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