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>Interstate 80 stretches 2,919 miles from New Jersey on the East Coast to California on the West. That’s made it a superhighway, carrying tons of goods across America from one coast to the other, and bringing along hundreds of logistics hubs or warehouses all along the way. But it’s not just a superhighway when it comes to transporting goods across the nation. It has also become an information superhighway, too. In the past year, $24 billion in data centers were announced across 15 projects, all somewhere along I-80, according to Site Selections’ Conway Project Database, a global database of corporate facility expansion projects. Part of the reason for that is a major transcontinental fiber line that is co-located along Union Pacific rights of way, as well as along I-80. But the trend does have a very noticeable gap when it comes to Wyoming.

Archive: https://archive.today/AzX5c From the post: >>Interstate 80 stretches 2,919 miles from New Jersey on the East Coast to California on the West. That’s made it a superhighway, carrying tons of goods across America from one coast to the other, and bringing along hundreds of logistics hubs or warehouses all along the way. But it’s not just a superhighway when it comes to transporting goods across the nation. It has also become an information superhighway, too. In the past year, $24 billion in data centers were announced across 15 projects, all somewhere along I-80, according to Site Selections’ Conway Project Database, a global database of corporate facility expansion projects. Part of the reason for that is a major transcontinental fiber line that is co-located along Union Pacific rights of way, as well as along I-80. But the trend does have a very noticeable gap when it comes to Wyoming.

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I remember reading that SMRs were being considered for large parts of both Utah and Wyoming specifically for the reason of trying to connect more of the state to SOME kind of grid. Even a 300mw reactor would be good for the rural parts where no one really needs a lot of power.

I agree with you completely though. It's not just power, but water that the fucking leech state robs from everyone else. It's almost as if building miles of tract housing in the middle of literal fucking deserts like palm desert or Temecula was a horrible fucking idea.

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Well, realistically anyone that needs power in Wyoming has it. The vast majority of the land is government owned and cant/wont be developed and there are little to no places where you have a house in Wyoming that can't get some sort of grid power.

Wyoming is being used as a test-case for SMR mainly because they can build them out where there is basically zero population and most of the people in the state don't really care. If you tried to build it in NYC you would have protesters shutting down the city because "nuclear bad, I don't know why but nuclear bad".

I do agree about the stupidity of some city's existing. Vegas is a great example of "what the fuck"?

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Don't knock Vegas TOO hard. They actually did a lot of work to ensure power and water for the region. The original solar molten salt reactors were test bed out in that region, and some of the biggest solar farms in the SW are in that area as well. Vegas has a lot of issues, but a lack of planning is not one of them.

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I get it but the existence of Vegas is still fucking stupid.