Kevin O'Leary Retracts China Claims on 40,000-Acre Utah Data Center as 60% Oppose Project
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Updated · Gizmodo · Jun 26
Kevin O'Leary Retracts China Claims on 40,000-Acre Utah Data Center as 60% Oppose Project
3 articles · Updated · Gizmodo · Jun 26
Summary
Kevin O'Leary said Thursday he has no evidence that Utah activists opposing his Stratos Project were funded by China or the Chinese Communist Party, reversing claims he had repeated on TV and social media.
The retraction followed earlier allegations that critics were tied to China through IP-address analysis and backed by "millions, hundreds of millions of dollars" from foreign adversaries; ABC4 reported he also deleted past posts making those claims.
The project would span two 20,000-acre sites in Box Elder County's Hansel Valley and Locomotive Valley, where opposition has centered on the scale of the planned data-center buildout.
A recent Deseret News-Hinckley Institute poll found 60% of Utah voters oppose the project and 26% support it, and state Senate President Stuart Adams lost a primary this week to Stephanie Hollist, an outspoken opponent.