Nearly 10,000 acres of Utah public land could host 456 nuclear reactors — enough power for 7-8 million homes, but none of them will get any of that power
THE SO WHAT
Dedicating 9.6 GW of nuclear on public land purely to a data center campus makes AI compute an explicit competitor to residential and industrial load, not just another cloud line item. If you run large-scale AI infra, you now have to manage political risk around who benefits from your power deals as much as you manage technical risk.
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