Fox News Apologizes Across 4 Shows for O'Leary's China Claims on 9-Gigawatt Utah AI Project
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Updated · The Independent · Jun 28
Fox News Apologizes Across 4 Shows for O'Leary's China Claims on 9-Gigawatt Utah AI Project
3 articles · Updated · The Independent · Jun 28
Summary
Four Fox News and Fox Business programs aired on-air apologies over four days after Kevin O'Leary made unsupported claims that opponents of his Utah AI data center were tied to China.
A 45-second segment on The Big Weekend Show said O'Leary had corrected the record and that neither he nor Fox had evidence critics were funded by, directed by, or coordinated with Chinese interests.
O'Leary's own response was narrower: in an X post, he said he had no evidence that named activists, consultants and advocacy groups were funded by China or the Chinese Communist Party.
The allegations grew out of a May appearance defending the Stratos Project, which O'Leary has cast as a national-security asset even as local lawmakers and conservationists challenge its scale and environmental risks.
That fight centers on the proposed Wonder Valley campus near the Great Salt Lake, originally planned at 10,000 acres with 9 gigawatts of power demand; Utah leaders have pushed for a 75% cut, while O'Leary's team offered 50%.