The Race to Build AI Data Centers — Before the People Can Protest ^25.8%

The Intercept - By The Intercept Briefing - 5/29/2026, 10:00 AM

Negativity Bias 25.5% - Post Hoc (False Cause) 12.7% - Hasty Generalization 10.9%

Shark Tank’s Kevin O’Leary has been making the media rounds defending the 40,000-acre data center project he’s backing in northern Utah. Dismissing residents’ concerns over the environmental impacts and water demands of the proposed project in the drought-stricken Great Salt Lake region, O’Leary has claimed protesters are “bused in,”... more