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Inside our months-long investigation into Kevin O’Leary’s Utah data center debacle
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An investigation details the challenges surrounding Kevin O’Leary’s proposed nine-gigawatt AI data center campus in Utah. The project faces significant scrutiny over its unprecedented scale and potential strain on regional power infrastructure.
- 01Proposed forty-thousand-acre facility aims to become the world's largest AI data center campus
- 02Nine-gigawatt power requirement exceeds double the average electricity usage of the entire state
- 03Project investigation highlights substantial backlash and logistical hurdles for the massive development
- 04Development plans represent a significant escalation in infrastructure demands for global artificial intelligence
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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 […]