The People of Utah vs. Kevin O’Leary

On the morning of May 11th, celebrity investor Kevin O’Leary appeared on Fox Business and announced that he was under attack by Chinese agents. For weeks, he had been promoting his project, Wonder Valley, designed to be the largest data center in the world spanning 40,000 acres north of Great Salt Lake in Box Elder County, Utah, complete with a dedicated gas power plant generating 9 gigawatts of electricity. Wearing a black baseball cap printed with "Utah National Security," O'Leary told Maria Bartiromo he noticed a sudden increase in online backlash after county commissioners unanimously approved his data center. Concluding there was only one adversary wishing to stop U.S. compute capacity and electrical grid development, he blamed China. Brandishing a sheet of paper with IP address data and names of online critics, O'Leary invited them to clear their names, stating with certainty that the Chinese Communist Party was at work behind the scenes.