cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/67573437

“It’s concerning to see that the Trump administration, with the support of the state of Utah, is pushing this forward on significant acreage of public lands,” said Neal Clark, wildlands director at the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, a Utah-based nonprofit that seeks to protect public lands.

  • some_designer_dude@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    2 hours ago

    Imagine a capitalism-enshittified nuclear power plant. Getting rid of “safety” redundancies and cutting costs all over the place until… How does this possibly end well? Oh well. At least it’s only Utah…

  • daannii@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    6 hours ago

    You know they plan to have Ai running a power plant.

    Next Chernobyl.

    It’s not like that power plant will provide any power to the rest of the area. If anything the data center will still be in a deficit and using from the main grid.

    So why are they being given public land to put a purely commercial, high risk, power plant on?

  • tidderuuf@lemmy.world
    33·
    6 hours ago

    A startup plans

    I’ll stop reading there because that’s about as far as this will ever go.