# Inside our months-long investigation into Kevin O'Leary's Utah data center debacle

> **Publication**: aitalky (Independent AI Journalism)
> **Canonical Citation URL**: https://aitalky.vercel.app/news/inside-our-months-long-investigation-into-kevin-olearys-utah-data-center-debacle
> **Original Source**: [The Verge AI](https://www.theverge.com/podcast/1002851/utah-ai-data-center-stratos-kevin-oleary-investigation-backlash)
> **Author**: Nilay Patel (undefined)
> **Published Date**: Thursday, October 1, 2026
> **Category**: PRODUCTS
> **Tags**: AI, The Verge AI, products

## Executive Summary
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.



## Full Coverage
Verge features writer Josh Dzieza discusses his investigation into the Stratos data center, and how Utah residents fought back against it

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. The project is technically called Stratos, but it's more prominently known as Wonder Valley, a reference to O'Leary's nickname on Shark Tank

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