Kevin O'Leary Defended Lucrative Utah Data Centers on SNL's October 10 Weekend Update
A Saturday Night Live sketch satirized Kevin O'Leary's proposal to build a 40,000-acre AI data center in Utah. The project has drawn opposition from Utah residents, who sued state officials, while lawmakers later mandated a smaller development because of concerns including water use and pollution.
Saturday Night Live's Weekend Update used a fictionalized Kevin O'Leary to mock his proposal for the Stratos Project Area Plan, an AI data center planned on roughly 40,000 acres in Utah. The sketch highlighted public opposition to data centers and satirized concerns about the project's potential water consumption, noise and pollution.
The article notes that Utah residents sued state officials over the proposal. Utah lawmakers subsequently required the project to be reduced from O'Leary's original plan, which was described as potentially twice the size of Manhattan, though the article does not provide details of the lawsuit's outcome.