Inside our months-long investigation into Kevin O’Leary’s Utah data center debacle
The Verge Nilay Patel ● Covered by 2 sources
The Verge reports that Kevin O’Leary’s Utah data-center project for “Wonder Valley” (also called Stratos) collapsed after county officials and local residents learned late in the process and mounted backlash that stopped the plan. The proposed site was a 40,000-acre campus billed with nine gigawatts of power, and it was approved by MIDA two days after a late-April county meeting. The investigation says the fallout reshaped Utah politics, triggered lawsuits tied to O’Leary’s remarks about critics, and highlighted local-government consent as the bottleneck for AI infrastructure buildouts.
Why it matters
Today I’m talking with Josh Dzieza, a longtime features writer here at The Verge, about Kevin O’Leary’s plans to build a massive data center in Utah. The idea was to build the world’s biggest data center — a 40,000-acre AI campus with nine gigawatts of power, or more than double the average power usage of […]
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