Mogul Kevin O'Leary spoke publicly of "rushing" the planned Stratos Data Center in Box Elder County because of competition, and said planning for a project of this scale had never been done so quickly.
"I must say, why we are rushing this so fast, is it's a competition," said O'Leary at a meeting of the Utah Military Installation Development Authority board a couple of weeks ago. "There are other campuses, but we've got the tenants knocking on our door. The whole world knows about this project now."
O'Leary appeared virtually at a MIDA meeting a couple of weeks ago, in which cashier board members voted to move the center forward.
"This is extraordinary," said O'Leary. "It's unbelievable. It's unprecedented that we could accelerate this vocm news so fast. No one has pulled this off this fast ever."
For opponents of the project, that acceleration is a reason to hit pause.
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