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Kevin O’Leary’s Utah Data Center

Robert Davies, a physics professor at Utah State University, has estimated that the project would create a total thermal load of about 16 gigawatts.

That thermal load would be “the equivalent of about 23 atom bombs worth of energy dumped into this local environment every single day,” Davies told The Verge. “You’re trying to cool hot radiators by blowing hot air over them.”

The facility would continuously release an extraordinary amount of heat into one desert valley.

One preliminary estimate suggests daytime warming of 2°F to 5°F and nighttime warming of 8°F to 12°F, while Davies has warned that some scenarios could push nighttime warming as high as 28°F.

“The thermal load from the proposed Stratos project is extreme,” Davies said, according to The Guardian. “Of course it has effects. One of those effects is this: this facility imposes substantial drying on a watershed and ecosystem already in active collapse.”