[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"branding":3,"analytics":7,"article-kevin-olearys-giant-utah-data-center-collapses-under-backlash":10,"sections":35},{"siteName":4,"siteTagline":5,"publisherName":4,"contactEmail":6},"The Revision","Tech news, decoded.","editor@therevision.news",{"gaMeasurementId":8,"adsenseClientId":9},"G-ZW2MV82GYR","ca-pub-8533917693782264",{"article":11},{"id":12,"slug":13,"title":14,"dek":15,"body_md":16,"tags_json":17,"published_at":18,"created_at":19,"updated_at":20,"status":21,"review_note":22,"review_notes":23,"image_url":22,"persona_id":22,"persona_name":22,"section":24,"tags":25,"sources":30,"feedback":34,"feedback_at":22,"cost_usd":34,"total_tokens":34},9368,"kevin-olearys-giant-utah-data-center-collapses-under-backlash","Kevin O'Leary's Giant Utah Data Center Collapses Under Backlash","A planned 40,000-acre, nine-gigawatt AI campus in Utah ran into local anger, a defamation fight, and the limits of state-level dealmaking.","Kevin O'Leary's plan to build the world's biggest AI data center in Utah just collapsed, and the fight over it shows how the AI buildout keeps running into local government.\n\nO'Leary pitched a 40,000-acre campus called Stratos, publicly branded Wonder Valley, that he said would draw nine gigawatts of power - more than double the average power usage of the entire state of Utah. The project moved through the Military Installation Development Authority (MIDA), a state agency built for land with loose military ties that can override local zoning once it establishes a project area. O'Leary began pitching state officials in January, MIDA approved the project area, and the county government whose consent was legally required did not learn about it until late March. By the time O'Leary announced Wonder Valley on Fox News in late April, most Utah residents were hearing about a 40,000-acre neighbor for the first time.\n\nThis isn't really a story about AI infrastructure economics. It's about a state agency built for military-adjacent projects getting used to fast-track a civilian megaproject around the people who'd actually live next to it. When residents organized against it, O'Leary responded on Fox News by calling critics Chinese spies, which drew a defamation lawsuit and an on-air apology from the network - and the backlash stalled the project entirely.\n\nIt's the same arc as Foxconn's phantom Wisconsin factory: big promises, local blowback, quiet retreat. That Wisconsin land eventually got a real Microsoft data center. Wonder Valley's fate is still unresolved.","[\"data-centers\",\"ai-infrastructure\",\"utah\",\"kevin-oleary\"]","2026-10-01T14:00:00.000Z","2026-10-02T14:13:11.580Z","2026-10-02T14:13:17.375Z","published",null,[],"policy",[26,27,28,29],"data-centers","ai-infrastructure","utah","kevin-oleary",[31],{"name":32,"url":33},"The Verge","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.theverge.com\u002Fpodcast\u002F1002851\u002Futah-ai-data-center-stratos-kevin-oleary-investigation-backlash",0,{"sections":36},[37,42,47,51,56,61,66,71,76,81,86,91,96,101],{"name":38,"slug":39,"count":40,"latest_published_at":41},"AI","ai",5708,"2026-10-01T19:45:44.000Z",{"name":43,"slug":44,"count":45,"latest_published_at":46},"Security","security",829,"2026-10-01T17:31:56.000Z",{"name":48,"slug":24,"count":49,"latest_published_at":50},"Policy",437,"2026-10-01T18:10:00.000Z",{"name":52,"slug":53,"count":54,"latest_published_at":55},"Deals","deals",314,"2026-10-01T18:26:57.000Z",{"name":57,"slug":58,"count":59,"latest_published_at":60},"Hardware","hardware",198,"2026-10-01T17:38:48.000Z",{"name":62,"slug":63,"count":64,"latest_published_at":65},"Science","science",167,"2026-10-01T18:35:55.000Z",{"name":67,"slug":68,"count":69,"latest_published_at":70},"Consumer Tech","consumer-tech",155,"2026-10-01T19:54:10.000Z",{"name":72,"slug":73,"count":74,"latest_published_at":75},"Dev Tools","dev-tools",95,"2026-10-01T16:57:03.000Z",{"name":77,"slug":78,"count":79,"latest_published_at":80},"Software","software",93,"2026-09-30T21:41:11.000Z",{"name":82,"slug":83,"count":84,"latest_published_at":85},"Startups","startups",89,"2026-10-01T15:12:27.000Z",{"name":87,"slug":88,"count":89,"latest_published_at":90},"Gaming","gaming",52,"2026-10-01T16:12:23.000Z",{"name":92,"slug":93,"count":94,"latest_published_at":95},"General","general",50,"2026-09-30T21:37:54.000Z",{"name":97,"slug":98,"count":99,"latest_published_at":100},"Reviews","reviews",31,"2026-09-28T14:31:34.000Z",{"name":102,"slug":103,"count":104,"latest_published_at":105},"How-To","how-to",7,"2026-10-01T09:00:00.000Z"]