Soon

The world’s biggest data center campus is coming to Delta, Utah, a small Mormon farming community of 4,000 people.

Soon is always curious about how so-called data center towns are impacted by hyperscale infrastructure, so we went out there to see for ourselves.

Our latest documentary is out now 👇

00:00 The stakes in Delta, Utah
01:22 Checking out a local drag race
02:27 The history of industry in Delta
04:29 A ride-along with the police sheriff
05:30 Who opposes the data center?
06:39 How the farmers are reacting
07:32 The asks keep changing
09:10 The mayor's dilemma
10:28 How an expert researcher sees rural data center development
11:37 Conclusion

We had @cosmos_raj make a survival game and he even got a stranger on the street to play it.

“It’s the calm before the storm, and it’s concerning.”

Kelly Carter sells farm equipment and sits on the city council in Delta, Utah, where a massive AI data center is planned. He says the developers initially planned to drill a well. Now, he says, they’re looking to the city for water.

We went to Delta to hear what that could mean for the farmers who already depend on it.

“I think the cart’s been put ahead of the horse a little on this.”

We spoke to the mayor of Delta, Utah, where the world’s biggest AI data center campus is coming to a Mormon farming community of 4,000 people.

The company developing the project, Creekstone Energy, initially asked whether the city could supply 85 acre-feet of water. But as plans continue to evolve, questions remain about how much water the campus will actually need and a potential 15-mile pipeline to supply it.

“The ground is actively raising underneath your feet and you don't even notice.”

A California startup called Terranova is building robots that can literally lift land out of flood zones.

We spoke to Terranova's CEO @laurence1allen about how the technology works, what it takes to raise land that's already below sea level, and the company's much bigger ambition: lifting entire cities out of flood zones.