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

**Published:** October 1, 2026
**Author:** Nilay Patel
**Source:** The Verge — AI
**Language:** en-US
**HTML:** https://aiqazaqstan.com/en/articles/inside-our-months-long-investigation-into-kevin-o-leary-s-utah-data-cent

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…

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