Kevin O'Leary's Utah AI data centre project stalls
What happened
On 1 October 2026, The Verge reporter Josh Dzieza published a months-long investigation into why the Stratos data centre project that Kevin O'Leary was advancing in Box Elder County, Utah, has stalled. The report says the project was planned to cover 40,000 acres with 9 gigawatts of power supply, more than twice the average electricity consumption of the entire state of Utah. Earlier reporting had already noted that the project was blocked by community opposition, and this investigation further disclosed details of the project's scale. The project is currently stalled, and the report does not mention any plans to move it forward.
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- The Verge · AIInside our months-long investigation into Kevin O’Leary’s Utah data center debacle
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 the entire state of Utah.
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