🧵YES. It is. I debunk this ridiculous piece in this thread.
1/ the lie (from the usual source): 2/ He conflates freshwater with potable water to get at his stat and leaves out gas turbine cooling in order to decrease the amount of water most AI datacenters require by about 70%.

OK, new post of this with the key info about Kevin O'Leary's 40,000-acre Stratos project bc I let my annoyance with the bad faith get in the way of the points. Here we go:
1/ No. Stratos is not at all likely to add any new jobs in Box Elder, as datacenters need specialized skills 2/ O'Leary's team claim 2K permanent jobs but hyperscale centers in op today employ far fewer
The tax benefit - absolutely non-existent. Utah's MIDA that pushed this through benefits. The county doesn't. And the project received massive tax cuts.

1/ By now, you've seen the video of this place making a loud humming at night. Why is it listed as a oil and gas company when it's a (hyperscale AI) datacenter?
Let me tell you why. 2/ The local electric supplier, Dominion Energy, literally ran out of capacity to power new buildings. To keep this VA2 campus running, Vantage couldn't wait years for new transmission lines. Instead, they installed massive natural gas turbines to generate electricity on-site.

Ben Smith, editor in chief of Semafor, just said that “Mahmoud Khalil is in some ways less vulnerable than Jimmy Kimmel.” Chris Hayes brushed it off saying “well, he’s being deported but anyway, yeah.” I can’t believe I just watched this. Jimmy Kimmel having to stay home and count his money is somehow worse than Mahmoud Khalil, a lawful permanent resident, being sent back to Syria, which he left after two of his dissident friends were detained.