Kevin O’Leary agrees to cut Utah’s big data center

Kevin O’Leary has agreed to cut the size of his 40,000-acre Utah ranch in half. strong rise from the occupants and motivational, like which was previously reported by local affiliate ABC4. The Shark Tank The Star sent a letter to Utah Senate President J. Stuart Adams on Thursday, saying it would remove 19,430 acres from the project, which is in and around the Locomotive Springs Waterfowl Management Area.

The change comes just days after Adams called O’Leary to reduce the size of its Project Stratos data center by 75 percent, which would reduce it to about 10,000 acres. Adams also asked O’Leary to implement technology that reduces water use, and diverts excess water to the Great Salt Lake, which continues to decline.

O’Leary said in the letter that he would cut another 620 acres northeast of the project near the highway, adding that he would “preserve most of the remaining acres as open space.” Even though it’s a small area of ​​about 20,000 acres, Project Stratos will still cover the entire area. bigger than Manhattan – and the data center that is part of this growth is still a big concern using energy aroundeffect on the environmentand pollution.