This Is The Space: Resurrect The Golden Plates Pavilion

2005 replica of The Golden Plates made by Stephen Pratt for the 200th anniversary of Joseph Smith’s birth, photographed at the LDS Museum of Church History and Art, via wikipedia The news that a vast nuclear-powered AI data center being proposed for 9,000 acres of public land in eastern Utah comes cloaked in Mormon language feels like the latter days. In June, Project Beehive debuted a small test version of its modular nuclear reactor, which it calls Ward 250. The flaky startup behind Project Beehive has applied to build 456 wards, producing 9.6 gigawatts of electricity, equivalent to the peak summer electrical capacity of the entire state. This semantic strategy serves to ease public perception of the proposal, and to lowkey blunt public criticism. It’s the localized cultural equivalent of Meta introducing its AI surveillance tool with a kawaii mascot. Expo ’74 Mormon Pavilion architectural model postcard, scan via visitexpo74 When @peterhuestis joked about the reactors’ containment…