The Third Chair · A Mount Olympus investigation
You’re welcome to your own opinions,
but not your own facts.
Utah’s Nuclear & Data Campus Futures
An open investigation into nuclear energy, AI infrastructure, and the choices facing Utah’s legislature and communities.
Follow the sources. Challenge the assumptions. Draw your own conclusions.
Take the Third Chair ↗Open the research notebook to explore the sources and ask your own questions. Google may ask you to sign in.
AI-generated conceptual illustration. The energy campus and geography are imagined, not a depiction of an existing or approved project.
An exercise in civic dialogue
We’ve set out a chair for you.
What would it take for nuclear power and large data campuses to serve Utah’s long-term public interest? That question deserves an evidence-based conversation about electricity, water, land, public money, and responsibility.
The Mount Olympus Project invites legislators, staff, local leaders, and curious Utahns to examine the case. Bring your opinions. Bring your questions. Bring the source that makes us reconsider ours.
Our standard applies to our own work, too: distinguish documented facts from company claims, forecasts, policy preferences, and unresolved questions. Better evidence should change the discussion.
A shared foundation of facts. An open horizon of possibilities.
Utah’s atomic ambitions. Utah’s digital future.
What should Utah establish before committing?
Nuclear proposals
Examine the governor’s nuclear agenda, the proposals associated with Delta, reactor designs, fuel needs, licensing, and the people and companies behind them.
What is proposed, what is authorized, and what has been demonstrated?
AI & data campuses
Test assumptions about electricity demand, water use, grid connections, construction schedules, and the alternatives for supplying dependable power.
How much demand is committed, and what happens if the forecasts change?
Costs & accountability
Ask who finances new infrastructure, who bears delays and overruns, how households and host communities are affected, and who remains responsible for waste and decommissioning.
Who benefits, who pays, and who carries the risk?
A promise is a starting point for investigation.
Show the evidence. Make the case.
Help us get it right.
Challenge an interpretation. Point out a missing source. Offer a better question. Our conclusions should remain open to correction.