--- format: "aidr-story-markdown/v1" id: "e52668df7bb2e8337172a2dc03385356ea8a3509ecbdcbcbfe574110211dd3fd" canonical_url: "https://aidr.today/e52668df?lang=en" title: "Inside our months-long investigation into Kevin O’Leary’s Utah data center debacle" lang: "en" requested_lang: "en" available_langs: ["en","vi"] translation_fallback: null fallback_fields: [] published_at: "2026-10-01T14:00:00.000Z" category: "Infra" topics: [] source_urls: ["https://www.theverge.com/podcast/1002851/utah-ai-data-center-stratos-kevin-oleary-investigation-backlash"] 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. 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 […]" --- # Inside our months\-long investigation into Kevin O’Leary’s Utah data center debacle > [Open the canonical story]() **Published:** 2026-10-01T14:00:00.000Z **Category:** Infra ## 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\. 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 \[…\] ## Sources - [Story source]()