Utah Data Center Project

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Kevin O'Leary discusses plans for a large data center in Utah, addressing misinformation about its environmental impact and power usage. The project involves building a phased data center facility on up to 40,000 acres of arid desert land, with the first phase expected to be 1.5 gigawatts of compute power, taking 2 to 3 years to build. The data center will have its own power plant and will not use electricity from Utah's grid. It aims to create about 4,000 construction jobs initially and maintain around 2,000 skilled jobs thereafter. The project emphasizes environmental responsibility, including not impacting the Great Salt Lake and using air-cooled turbines to minimize water usage.