Kevin O’Leary agrees to downsize massive Utah data center

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Kevin O'Leary, the Shark Tank investor, agreed to halve his planned 40,000-acre data center in Utah, cutting 19,430 acres from the project after days of pressure from local officials and residents. The massive facility, dubbed Project Stratos, would have sprawled across and around the Locomotive Springs Waterfowl Management Area in one of the state's most environmentally sensitive regions. O'Leary's reversal came just after Utah Senate President J. Stuart Adams publicly called for him to downsize the project, signaling that even deep-pocketed developers face real limits when communities push back hard enough.