Skip to main content Project Stratos will still have a footprint larger than Manhattan. Project Stratos will still have a footprint larger than Manhattan. by Jun 4, 2026, 6:38 PM UTC Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images Emma Roth is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Kevin O’Leary agreed to halve the size of his planned 40,000-acre data center in Utah amid mounting pressure from residents and activists, as reported earlier by local affiliate ABC4 . The Shark Tank star sent a letter to Utah Senate President J. Stuart Adams on Thursday, saying that he will remove 19,430 acres from the project, located in and around the Locomotive Springs Waterfowl Management Area. The change comes just days after Adams called on O’Leary to slash the size of his Project Stratos data center by 75 percent, which would reduce it to about 10,000 acres.…