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Kevin O’Leary agrees to reduce the huge data center in Utah
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As local affiliate ABC4 previously reported, Kevin O'Leary has agreed to halve the size of his planned 40,000-acre data center in Utah amid mounting pressure from residents and activists. The Shark Tank star sent a letter to Utah Senate President J. Stuart Adams on Thursday saying he would remove 19,430 acres from the project located in and around the Locomotive Springs Waterfowl Management Area.
Kevin O'Leary agrees to scale back massive Utah data center
Project Stratos will still occupy a larger footprint than Manhattan.
Project Stratos will still occupy a larger footprint than Manhattan.
The change comes just days after Adams asked O'Leary to reduce the size of the Project Stratos data center by 75%, to about 10,000 acres. Adams also asked O'Leary to implement technology to minimize water consumption and divert excess water into the ever-shrinking Great Salt Lake.
O'Leary also added in the letter that an additional 620 acres would be cut from the northeast portion of the project near the highway, "and the majority of the remaining acreage will be preserved as open space." Despite its smaller footprint of approximately 20,000 acres, Project Stratos will still cover an area larger than Manhattan, and some data centers of this size still pose major issues related to energy use, environmental impact, and pollution.
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