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

September 29, 2026 · 10:00 am 3 sources

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• AI: Concern as Germany plans to double data center capacity
  Deutsche Welle · September 29, 2026 10:00
  Germany is rewriting the rules to attract data center investment from AI companies. But local communities are becoming increasingly skeptical.
• The People of Utah vs. Kevin O’Leary
  The Verge · October 1, 2026 10:00
  On the morning of May 11th, the celebrity investor Kevin O’Leary appeared on Fox Business and announced that he was under attack by Chinese agents. For weeks, he had been going on TV and posting online to tout his project, called Wonder Valley, after his nickname from the reality show Shark Tank,…
• Inside our months-long investigation into Kevin O’Leary’s Utah data center debacle
  The Verge · October 1, 2026 14:00
  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 centers — a 40,000-acre AI campus with nine gigawatts of power, or more than double the average power…