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Utah charges a $15 fee to submit formal protests complaints & objections against large-scale developments like the proposed Box Elder County (Stratos) data center. Thousands paid the $15 fee, then developers withdrew the INITIAL application rendering those complaints null & void

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Kevin O'Leary just accused China of secretly funding every protest against AI in America. He says he has the proof and he's handing it to the FBI. The Shark Tank legend went on Diary of a CEO and dropped some INSANE revelations: He hired forensic auditors who traced IRS 990 filings from an organization called Arabella Advisors back to what he claims are Chinese-linked funding channels. He says he has 90 pages of IP addresses from foreign sources and his team is feeding data to government agents every four hours. His executives received death threats and the FBI visited the woman responsible at her home in Denver. O'Leary's claim is that China is deliberately funding dark money networks to stop American data center and power infrastructure from being built because every month America falls behind on compute is a month China gains ground with DeepSeek. And on the surface, the logic makes sense: China built 400 gigawatts of coal power in 19 months while America struggled to approve a single facility. If you're China and you can't outbuild America, the cheapest strategy is making sure America can't build at all. But here's what O'Leary didn't mention on the podcast... He is personally BUILDING a $100 billion data center in Utah called Stratos that would consume more electricity than the entire state. 40,000 acres across three sites, more than double the size of Manhattan, powered by 9 gigawatts of on-site natural gas generation. It would be the single largest data center ever proposed in America. And the residents of Box Elder County are trying to kill it. Hundreds packed a fairgrounds in Tremonton to protest but the commissioners voted to approve it anyway. Residents immediately launched a referendum campaign. O'Leary's response was to accuse 90% of the protesters of being paid actors coming from out of state. The Salt Lake Tribune investigated that claim and found it wasn't true. Then his OWN business partner walked back the China accusations. KSL reported last week that the Stratos team quietly shifted from claiming Chinese government funding to simply questioning where progressive nonprofits get their donations. FOX 13 reported that O'Leary had not released any of the documents he promised would prove the China connection. Meanwhile the groups he accused responded directly: Alliance for a Better Utah said "the only foreign interest in this data center is Kevin from Canada." Elevate Strategies posted a video saying "we are not Chinese foreign operatives" and that their opposition is about water, power, and the Great Salt Lake. So here's the reality that makes this story actually matter... Every major data center developer in America is about to face the same problem. Communities don't WANT these facilities. 7 in 10 Americans oppose local data center construction because energy costs are rising and water tables are dropping. Kevin O'Leary just showed the playbook for how they plan to deal with opposition. You don't debate the environmental concerns or negotiate with residents... You accuse anyone who pushes back of being a Chinese agent, wrap the entire project in a national security narrative, and make opposing a data center sound like treason. Because if the people fighting your project are patriots worried about their water and electricity bills, you have a problem. But if they're Chinese-funded saboteurs trying to DESTROY American AI dominance, you have a mandate. Every data center developer on Earth is watching Utah right now. If O'Leary's strategy works, the China accusation becomes the standard playbook for overriding local opposition everywhere. If the referendum succeeds, communities still have the power to say no. This is the template for how the AI infrastructure war gets fought in every state for the next decade. Kevin O'Leary probably spent a good amount of money to promote his narrative on Diary of a CEO.

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