How Utah locals fought Kevin O'Leary's AI data center
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How Utah locals fought Kevin O'Leary's AI data center

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 1, 202644 min
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Today I’m talking with Josh Dzieza, a longtime features writer here at The Verge, about a massive data center in Utah that does not exist, might never exist, and yet has already completely reshaped the politics of the entire state. Josh just published a major feature this week on the struggling Stratos data center project in Utah backed by Shark Tank star Kevin O’Leary. So I invited Josh on the show to discuss what’s happening inside the AI industry’s infrastructure boom, inside the bipartisan backlash to data centers, and how the tech industry is runnin...

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