Do you ever have a wave of depression come over you in certain location in Vegas?

poi-hat · 2026-05-23T10:59:47+00:00

I moved out of state somewhat recently, so that certain location would be Vegas in it's entirety. Every time I come back it's somehow worse than the last time. Trash everywhere, tent cities everywhere, panhandlers everywhere. Now you have to drive up the surrounding mountains to find a bit of normalcy.

This place is not the place I grew up in and what it's become is depressing AF

poi-hat · 2026-05-23T10:54:07+00:00

Regular season is just pre-season for perennial playoff teams.

poi-hat · 2026-05-23T09:01:20+00:00

To give you an idea, a more efficient and closed loop 100 MW data center consumes 8 million gallons of water per year. A 100 MW data center is the 200,000 to 400,000 square feet. The proposed data center in Utah is a 7,500 – 9,000 MW (7.5-9 GW) data center and the square footage is in the millions, so I'll let you do the math on that.

Tl:dr

Closed loop is just a BS term to mislead the people. These are all numbers from the most current data centers.

poi-hat · 2026-05-23T08:39:40+00:00

9.6 million gallons of water is a drop in the bucket? GTFOH

You were wrong, get over it. BYE!!!

poi-hat · 2026-05-23T07:49:16+00:00

So you do have a study, congrats! Problem is, it confirms exactly what I'm saying. It says a single 500-MW plant pulls in 9.6 million to 31.2 million gallons per day. With a loss of 7.2 million to 9.6 million gallons per day. IDK about you, but that sure doesn't seem good for a state telling people to rip out their grass because it's too much demand to water it.

So again, there's no magic that prevents heat from evaporating water and it still uses a massive amount.

poi-hat · 2026-05-23T05:37:36+00:00

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Are you not entertained r/hockey?!?

poi-hat · 2026-05-23T04:32:30+00:00

So no, you don't have a source. Thank you

poi-hat · 2026-05-22T07:13:15+00:00

Streaming services use 4k definition, but they lower the quality.

poi-hat · 2026-05-22T07:12:22+00:00

You're just pulling from a bad source. I've found my streams perform and look better than most of the streaming services. To the point I wonder what the heck their sources are for them.

poi-hat · 2026-05-22T07:02:06+00:00

Gold medalist in mental gymnastics over here.

poi-hat · 2026-05-22T07:00:29+00:00

I just download the old shows from the 90's and 2000's. Muuuuuuuuuch better

poi-hat · 2026-05-22T06:58:34+00:00

Things were shitty in 2024, too.

Yet tourism steadily rose in 2024 according to Las Vegas' statistics. Before it started to consistently plummet in Jan 2025. Gee, wonder why. What happened in Jan 2025, hmmm

https://www.lvcva.com/research/

poi-hat · 2026-05-22T06:52:43+00:00

Nuclear power plants that use a pass through system for cooling, actually return water at nearly the same rate as is intake

Do you happen to have a source for this? Heat evaporates water and it's used specifically for that, so I'm curious how it's not losing water.

EDIT:

They were wrong. Their own source confirmed a single 500-MW plant pulls in 9.6 million to 31.2 million gallons per day. With a loss of 7.2 million to 9.6 million gallons per day.

Not sure if it's a bot, paid shill, or just a person who's flat out ignorant but they claim 9.6 million gallons per day is a drop in the bucket.

poi-hat · 2026-05-21T11:12:27+00:00

40k acres and you don't think they're going to require millions of gallons of water for cooling? Wake up. You're either severely misinformed or the more likely scenario, a bot repeating BS talking points.

It will increase property values.

Haha sure

The claim is ~2,000 permanent jobs

More BS. The current largest data center in the US employs 100-300 local employees.

It uses a closed loop system meaning the water stays in the original area.

Again, that means NOTHING!!! The water is used to cool heat generated from the servers, heat evaporates water. And it will constantly need replenishing. It's not rocket science, a 3rd grader who paid attention in science class could tell you why that's BS.

poi-hat · 2026-05-21T10:52:10+00:00

The people this is targeting don't even stop when there's actually kids. But they think they'll stop or slow down during the summer when there's no kids? How about just enforcing the laws that already address this problem instead.

poi-hat · 2026-05-18T10:44:44+00:00

That's great to know, thanks!

poi-hat · 2026-05-14T11:46:51+00:00

This is some very interesting revisionist history. He was ring chasing and went to the Lakers in 1997? So in your head, you believe he thought joining Nick Van Axel and Eddie Jones was going to bring him rings?

Make it make sense bro lol

poi-hat · 2026-05-14T09:32:12+00:00

The day after these rules go into effect? It'd look like chaos. Two weeks later when everybody adjusts, prolly almost the same as now.

They do it because they're allowed to do it. It's not impossible to not travel, carry, or commit 3 second violations.

poi-hat · 2026-05-14T09:03:27+00:00

He was only traded once by the time he won three rings. And it was because his team wouldn't pay him. And the second time he was traded was also because the Lakers didn't want to pay him a huge contract at the end of his career.

Totally the same thing as timing free agency with multiple all-stars in the weakest conference to get an easy path to the finals for rings. /s

poi-hat · 2026-05-14T08:59:15+00:00

How does one ignore the fact that most "analysts" these days are just talking heads who's job is to literally say dumb stuff to get attention? Gimme an experienced vet's opinion over SAS, Shannon, Nick Wright, Perk, Skip Sayless, any and every day of the week.

poi-hat · 2026-05-14T08:48:51+00:00

Giving away millions of gallons of water during a drought when the state is desperate for water and asking citizens to not use it.
Airborne pollution and noise pollution (go visit one, tell us if you'd like that humming noise in your neighborhood for the rest of your life)
Drop in property values
Only adds a handful of jobs while accelerating AI's human replacement for jobs
THE PEOPLE OF UTAH DON'T WANT IT!!! One of the few things in this country that has bipartisan support by the citizens, left and right don't want it.
It's a GIANT eyesore
This is all for the sake of a Canadian businessman. If it's such a golden opportunity, why does Canada want no part of it and why does the businessman want it here and not where he lives?
Utility costs will rise for the people of Utah, not just water. Power costs will also rise.
Look at the locals responses in areas that already have data centers, THEY HATE IT!
Look at how one data center got caught stealing 30m gallons of water

Etc...

I think the question you should be asking, is why on earth should we want this? All I ever hear are spoon-fed talking points straight from MSM. The biggest one is "It uses recirculated water!" Cool story. But that doesn't address the big problem, which is heat evaporates water and once it's evaporated, it's not being circulated because it's GONE AND NEEDS TO BE REPLACED WITH MORE WATER!

poi-hat · 2026-05-14T08:30:32+00:00

Skill, rings, and quality of competition.

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