Utah senator smacks ABC reporters phone out of hand amid Data Center controversy

nradov

It's so weird that people are getting worked up about a fake project. Regardless of government activities, there is no industry financing to actually build anything. Kevin O'Leary’s Biggest Scam Yet: https://youtu.be/RWoV0EXxa7c

janice1999

> ABC4’s crew was also issued a trespassing notice. The class system in the US has never been more on display with the datacenter build outs. A senator who attacks a journalist gets them threatened by the police. Town halls to listen to local "concerns" are charades where they look for any excuse to arrest anyone who voices opposition [1]. [1] https://www.newson6.com/tulsa-oklahoma-news/arrest-made-duri...

Trasmatta

Sounds like someone is pretty easily triggered

dlenski

Problems with the title: 1. The story is not about one of Utah's 2 US senators, but about one of its state senators. The title should probably say "Utah state senator." 2. There is a missing apostrophe in "reporter's"

dabinat

The impression I get from conversations with non-technical people is that they associate data centers with AI and all the associated controversies and negative externalities that come with that. They do not realize that there are non-AI uses for data centers. I wonder if it’s only a matter of time before people are openly trying to torch data centers.

grahamburger

Wow, second time this week that Utah has been on the HN Frontpage! Guess we're moving up in the world! Or, well, down, as neither story reflects particularly well on our state.

krupan

People in Utah are super upset about this data center project (and no, they aren't bussed-in paid protestors like "Mr. Wonderful" claims). Check Instagram and ksl.com for all the drama, it's very entertaining. Utahns are being asked to save water at every opportunity and then this world-record sized data center gets green lit by the state government with zero explanation as to how that jives with the drought narrative. People are already tracking down the financial links between state government officials and the people behind this are already being discovered. State senator slaps a reporter's iPhone out of their hand,county commissioner gets teary eyed saying his family was threatened, governor calls the attitude of all the citizens complaining "dumb" and throws a little temper tantrum. It's incredible

JohnTHaller

> Senator Jerry Stevenson (R-Layton) is a powerful GOP lawmaker on Utah’s Capitol Hill — sitting on three of arguably the state’s most powerful boards and chairing the state’s top budget committee.