r/Washington50501

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The Nakba, meaning "catastrophe" in Arabic, was 1948 atrocity against Palestinians conducted by Israel and the US. The ethnic cleansing of 800,000 Palestinians, destruction of hundreds of villages, and the loss of their homeland.

This has both local and regional importance to Washington State

The Stratos Project, a proposed $100 billion hyperscale data center in Utah, at 40,000 acres (about 62 square miles) dwarfs Seattle and Bremerton combined. It will use 9 gigawatts of electricity (twice the current energy consumption of the entire state of Utah) and tap into the 680-mile interstate Ruby Pipeline for new natural gas power plants, a gas line which currently sends natural gas from Wyoming to customers in Oregon and Washington, including being one of the suppliers for both Cascade Natural Gas Corp & NW Natural! (definitely will raise our rates lol)

It will also consume around 16.6 Billion Gallons of water a year from the Salt Lake basin, a death knell for the struggling lake, though I wouldn't be surprised if they try to source water from the Snake River to the north, which would impact the Columbia River downstream, especially during drought years. It's a project big enough to actually impact the entire western US region.

Other fun facts about the project:

- being developed by billionaire Kevin O'Leary's "O'Leary Investments" group.

- 10 year build out over multiple phases, expected to be fully funded and anchored by the big four hyperscaler tech companies; Amazon, Microsoft, Meta, and Alphabet (Google) and also likely the US Military for unspecified "national security operations".

- 5 month expedited permits (normally 5 years) as it's using a zoning loophole called the "Military Installation Development Authority" (MIDA) created in 2007 by Utah to fast track national security developments.

- expected to generate 7 to 8 gigawatts of waste heat, enough to raise local night temperatures by 12°F and 5°F in the day (equivalent to the heat energy of 23 nuclear bombs a day), while increasing Utah's greenhouse gas emissions by up to 75%.

- its size is equivalent to 2,000 Walmart Supercenters or 2.7 times the size of Manhattan

- MIDA loophole cut energy use tax from 6% to 0.5% with an 80% property tax rebate back to the developer

- unanimously approved by the Box Elder County Commissioners despite over 1,000 residents showing up to protest

- fully supported by the Governor of Utah, Spencer Cox

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