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Kevin O'Leary says he's 'not walking away' from his Utah AI data center, despite call to shrink it by 75%

All Content from Business Insider·Ben Shimkus·4 months ago
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Kevin O'Leary spoke out against a recent proposed reduction to a Utah data center project. Christopher Willard/ABC via Getty Images Kevin O'Leary's company says it was caught off guard by a Utah lawmaker's demand to dramatically shrink its proposed AI data center campus. On Monday, Utah Senate President J. Stuart Adams said he sent a letter to the celebrity investor calling for a 75% reduction in the proposed data center campus. Adams — who also chairs the Military Installation Development Authority, which gave the project an initial approval in April — wrote that he wants the Box Elder County data center to be reduced from 40,000 acres to about 10,000 acres. He also said he wanted stronger commitments on water, conservation, environmental review, heat reduction, and public transparency before the project moves forward. "We have not engaged any Utah legislators on this. The letter caught us off guard," a spokesperson for O'Leary Digital told Business Insider.…

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