TechInside the investigation into Kevin O’Leary’s Utah data center debacle

The Verge’s Josh Dzieza discusses Kevin O’Leary’s proposed Stratos data center in Utah, better known as Wonder Valley. The planned 40,000-acre, nine-gigawatt AI campus triggered a political firestorm over how it was planned, approved, and kept from local residents, bringing the project to a halt and highlighting backlash against the AI infrastructure boom.

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