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Larry Fink, CEO of BlackRock, is described as saying that building the biggest AI data centers in the United States will require “trillions of dollars” of capital, and that governments cannot build them alone due to lack of resources and growing deficits. The transcript claims these data centers are being built without public approval and without public input.
A Utah data center is highlighted as an example: the Stratus Data Center in the empty desert of northwestern Utah near Snowville, close to the Idaho border. The project is said to be pushed by Kevin O’Leary. It is described as being more than twice the size of Manhattan and as potentially needing up to three gigawatts of electricity, compared to the output of multiple nuclear reactors. Environmental groups are said to warn it could raise Utah’s planet-warming pollution by nearly fifty percent, and that its power systems could consume up to 16.6 billion gallons of water per year—enough to fill around 25,000 Olympic swimming pools—despite being in one of the driest states in America. The transcript also uses multiple size comparisons (including San Francisco, Disneyland, Disney World, Paris, suburban house lots, Los Angeles to Central Texas, and football fields) and adds that it could raise daytime temperatures by five degrees and nighttime temperatures by 28 degrees. The project is characterized as an “ecological disaster.”
The transcript then shifts to a “very emotionally charged” meeting in Box Elder County. Box Elder County commissioners are said to have moved to approve the Sprouts project after protests outside, a crowded exhibit hall, multiple interruptions, and then shifting to a smaller room and broadcasting to Zoom, which upset people. Commissioners are described as saying the county’s land is not zoned, limiting their ability to stop the project, and that approving it allowed them to obtain concessions from the developer.
Finally, the transcript questions what so much data would be for, suggests it could be intended for the largest, most expensive AI surveillance system in human history, and links that idea to a claim that Trump and other billionaires traveled to China weeks earlier for deals or negotiations related to AI surveillance, framing this as a conspiracy idea.