The incumbents of both parties need to be wary of any promises made by future data centers. The voters know what's really happening even if the politicians don't.

You wanted to build those fucking things near the Salt lake? Waiting for ones proposed on the rim of the Grand Canyon.

... and other tech billionaires who want big data centers to process AI and to mine bit coins. And if it takes burning many cubic miles of natural gas to run the generators, that's someone else's problem!

Constituents can pound sand.

they can do the Tech Bros bidding and lose the rural vote.

Sweetheart deals to the rich investors who back them regarding electric and water rates, noise, destruction of both human and wildlife habitat, deals for these places made behind closed doors and then presented to the public as fait accompli; yeah, i can see why any politician idiotic enough to vote for these things are going down.
On a side note- caught the end of a story on our local news about companies who went to AI thinking to replace their workforce are now rehiring people to replace the AI.

At least with sporting venues there is a significant amount of local employment, it doesn't consume nowhere near the same amount of water & electricity, and the noise is bearable.

And that Dems learn sooner rather than later that no matter how much money the techbros throw at them, that if they support data centers, they do so at their own peril.

Like inflation, data centers are one of those issues where the impact cuts across all regional, racial and partisan boundaries.

So in a nutshell, AI is the wave of the future, as long as EVERYONE uses it. And in order for it to work really, really good we need these gigantic, resource sucking processing plants. But we shouldn’t really get too balled up about how much we deplete the natural resources because when we really get going, the AI will let us know how to refurbish the wasted resources… plus we get to figure out how to get richer, and if EVERYONE is onboard with the AI this will happen sooner than later.

Here’s some campaign cash to vote the right way for AI…..

A data center in the Wasatch Valley is a death sentence for the water supply and the Salt Lake.

Heedless LDS-driven development has already sucked so much out of the drainage's meager volume that the Salt Lake is drying up. Even Mormons object to dust storms of toxic lake sediment.