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Kevin O'Leary's Massive Data Center Project in Utah Gets the Greenlight, Locals Are Furious
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Kevin O'Leary's Massive Data Center Project in Utah Gets the Greenlight, Locals Are Furious

Gizmodo·Bruce Gil·26 days ago
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Shark Tank’s Kevin O’Leary has joined the AI data center boom with newly approved plans for a controversial massive project in Utah. The Box Elder County Commission voted on Monday to move forward with a proposed 40,000-acre AI and cloud computing campus in a rural part of northern Utah near the Great Salt Lake. The site would span more than twice the size of Manhattan. The project, backed by O’Leary Digital, the infrastructure arm of O’Leary Ventures, is expected to eventually produce and consume up to 9 gigawatts of power. That’s roughly double the amount of electricity the entire state of Utah currently consumes, according to The Salt Lake Tribune . The campus is expected to be built in phases and overseen by Utah’s Military Installation Development Authority (MIDA).…

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