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BY GRACE HAWKINS · MAY 20, 2026
Kevin O'Leary Stratos AI data center project in Box Elder County Utah
The Stratos Project is a proposed 40,000-acre, 9-gigawatt AI data center campus in Box Elder County, Utah, with a projected $100 billion total cost.
At full build-out, Stratos would consume more electricity than the entire state of Utah currently uses (roughly 4 GW), all generated on-site by natural gas.
Box Elder County commissioners unanimously approved the project on May 4, 2026, but residents have launched a referendum effort needing 5,422 signatures in 45 days.
Kevin O’Leary accused opposition groups of being funded by China, escalating the debate into a national flashpoint on AI infrastructure and local consent.
Phase one alone is projected to generate $30 million in annual revenue for the county and create roughly 2,000 permanent jobs.
Last updated: May 2026
Quick answers
What is the Stratos data center?
The Stratos Project is a proposed $100 billion, 9-gigawatt AI hyperscale data center campus in Box Elder County, Utah, developed through a joint venture between West GenCo and O’Leary Digital Limited. The project spans 40,000 acres and would power its operations entirely with on-site natural gas generation connected to the 680-mile Ruby interstate pipeline.
How much power will the Stratos data center use?
At full build-out, Stratos would require 9 gigawatts of electricity, more than double the roughly 4 gigawatts the entire state of Utah currently consumes. All power would be generated on-site using natural gas turbines, making it one of the largest private power generation installations ever proposed in the United States.
Why are Utah residents protesting the data center?
Residents and environmental groups oppose Stratos over water consumption (estimated at 4.24 to 16.6 billion gallons per year), potential heat island effects near the Great Salt Lake, air quality concerns from natural gas combustion, and the project’s footprint on land currently used for ranching and farming. A referendum effort is underway to put the county’s approval to a public vote.
On May 4, 2026, three county commissioners in Box Elder County, Utah, voted unanimously to approve a project that would consume more electricity than their entire state. The crowd packed into the Tremonton fairgrounds wasn’t happy about it. Hundreds of residents had driven hours to protest, some holding signs reading “people before profits.” The commissioners voted anyway.
The Stratos Project is a proposed 40,000-acre, 9-gigawatt AI hyperscale data center campus in Box Elder County, backed by Kevin O’Leary through O’Leary Digital Limited, with a projected $100 billion total cost. At that scale, it would be the largest single-site data center development ever proposed in the United States, dwarfing even the SpaceX-adjacent infrastructure buildouts that have dominated tech headlines this year.
The man behind it is the “Shark Tank” investor who sold SoftKey to Mattel for $3.9 billion in 1999 and has since built a media career around telling founders their ideas are worthless. Now he’s telling America it needs more data centers, and that anyone who disagrees might be working for Beijing.
Here’s what Stratos actually is, why it matters for the AI compute landscape, and what founders should understand about the infrastructure war that’s just getting started.
What is the Stratos data center project?
Stratos is a hyperscale AI data center and power generation campus proposed for unincorporated land in northwest Box Elder County, about 80 miles north of Salt Lake City. The development is a joint venture between West GenCo, an energy infrastructure firm, and O’Leary Digital Limited, Kevin O’Leary’s technology investment arm. The two entities partnered in February 2026 to advance the project.
The numbers are staggering. The campus would span roughly 40,000 acres, an area comparable to the size of Washington, D.C. Architecture firm Gensler has designed the master plan, which depicts 60 data center buildings clustered in groups of 10 across six sites, plus a 3,000-acre solar array. Paul Palandjian, O’Leary Digital’s CEO, told Dezeen the design intentionally breaks from the industry’s standard gray-box aesthetic.
The project falls under Utah’s Military Installation Development Authority (MIDA), a state entity created in 2007 to support military-adjacent economic development. MIDA’s involvement gives the project a national security framing: the campus is positioned as infrastructure for AI, cloud computing, and “mission-critical national defense operations.” That framing matters. It’s the shield O’Leary uses every time someone asks why a rural county of 60,000 people should host a facility this size.
The development team has committed $16.2 million in up-front funding to offset initial impacts on the Box Elder County budget. At full build-out, the project is expected to create roughly 2,000 permanent positions across energy, technology, and operations.
How much power will the Utah data center use?
Nine gigawatts. That single number is why Stratos has become a national story.
For context, the entire state of Utah currently consumes roughly 4 gigawatts of electricity, according to the Salt Lake Tribune. Stratos alone would need more than twice that. All of it would be generated on-site through natural gas turbines connected to the 680-mile Ruby interstate natural gas pipeline. No grid connection. No renewable mix. Just gas.
Phase one commits to 3 gigawatts and is projected to generate $30 million in annual revenue for Box Elder County. At the full 9-gigawatt build-out, that figure rises to $108 million annually, per MIDA’s project documentation. The first gigawatt of capacity could be operational within two years if construction proceeds on schedule, though experts quoted by ABC4 said the full campus likely won’t reach completion for a decade.
The all-natural-gas approach is where Stratos splits from the pack. OpenAI has pledged that Stargate will “pay its own way” on power, and xAI’s Colossus expansion includes plans for on-site natural gas generation through a joint venture called Solaris. But both projects also incorporate grid connections and have at least gestured toward renewable supplements. Stratos isn’t gesturing. The Ruby pipeline connection means 9 GW of uninterrupted fossil fuel combustion, and the project’s own documentation doesn’t include a renewable transition timeline.
For comparison, Wisconsin regulators ruled in April 2026 that Microsoft’s Mount Pleasant data centers must cover the full cost of their energy needs, including grid upgrades. That ruling set a precedent that could follow Stratos: if Utah decides the developer must internalize the full environmental and infrastructure costs, the project economics change fast.
To put 9 GW in perspective against other hyperscale compute projects: xAI’s Colossus facility in Memphis expanded to 2 GW in January 2026 with 555,000 NVIDIA GPUs and an $18 billion price tag. OpenAI’s Stargate initiative targets 10 GW across multiple sites in Texas, Michigan, and beyond, backed by $500 billion in combined investment from Oracle and SoftBank. Microsoft’s Mount Pleasant campus in Wisconsin is approved for roughly 2 GW at a total investment exceeding $13 billion.
Stratos is proposing to concentrate 9 GW in a single location. That’s not incrementally bigger. It’s a different category.
Table 01
PROJECT POWER CAPACITY INVESTMENT LOCATION STATUS (MAY 2026)
Stratos (O’Leary Digital) 9 GW (single site) $100B projected Box Elder County, UT County approved; referendum pending
Stargate (OpenAI / Oracle / SoftBank) 10 GW (multi-site) $500B committed TX, MI, and 5+ new sites Abilene campus nearing 1 GW; expanding
Colossus (xAI / Musk) 2 GW (single metro) $18B+ (GPUs alone) Memphis, TN area Operational; third building expanding
Microsoft Mt. Pleasant ~2 GW (multi-campus) $13B+ Mount Pleasant, WI 15 buildings approved Jan 2026
Who is funding the Stratos data center?
Kevin O’Leary is the public face, but he isn’t the sole money behind Stratos. The project is structured through West GenCo, the energy infrastructure partner, which formed the joint venture with O’Leary Digital Limited in February 2026. O’Leary’s estimated net worth sits around $400 million, a fraction of the $100 billion Stratos would require at full build-out.
The funding gap is the part of the story that hasn’t been fully answered. O’Leary has framed Stratos as a national security play, emphasizing that MIDA’s involvement means federal defense applications will be part of the tenant mix. But project filings don’t name specific anchor tenants, and none of the hyperscale cloud providers (Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud) have publicly committed to leasing space. That’s a notable absence for a project of this scale.
O’Leary isn’t new to data centers. One of O’Leary Ventures’ other current projects is a similar facility called Wonder Valley in Alberta, Canada. The Alberta project uses the same Gensler design language, and O’Leary has pointed to it as proof of concept. But Alberta’s project is smaller and earlier-stage, making it more precedent than validation.
The capital structure raises questions that O’Leary hasn’t publicly addressed. A $100 billion build-out would rank among the largest private infrastructure investments in American history. For reference, Stargate’s $500 billion commitment is spread across OpenAI, Oracle, SoftBank, and a growing list of institutional co-investors. Stratos has O’Leary Digital and West GenCo. Whether additional equity partners, sovereign wealth funds, or federal defense contracts will close that gap is the single biggest unknown in the project’s viability. Without named tenants or committed capital beyond the JV, the $100 billion figure is a ceiling, not a budget.
Utah residents protesting the Stratos data center project in Box Elder County
Why are Utah residents protesting the data center?
The opposition is broad, organized, and getting louder. Environmental groups, local ranchers, and political advocacy organizations have united against Stratos on multiple fronts.
Water is the biggest flashpoint. Estimates for Stratos’s annual water consumption range from 4.24 billion gallons (per a Utah Clean Energy analysis) to 16.6 billion gallons (per Salt Lake Tribune reporting), depending on the cooling technology used. The project sits near the Great Salt Lake, which has already lost roughly half its water area over the past two decades. Scientists from the University of Utah warned in the Salt Lake Tribune that the concentrated heat output could create a “heat island” effect large enough to alter local temperatures and affect migratory bird habitats.
Air quality is the second concern. Generating 9 GW entirely from natural gas means on-site combustion at a scale that would make Stratos one of the largest single-point emissions sources in Utah. Utah Clean Energy published an analysis estimating the project’s annual carbon footprint, though final numbers depend on turbine specifications that haven’t been publicly confirmed.
Then there’s the consent question. Box Elder County has just under 60,000 residents. A group called Box Elder Accountability Referendum is working to collect 5,422 registered voter signatures within 45 days of the May 4 approval to force a November ballot measure. Hundreds of Utahns also rallied at the state Capitol on May 14, urging Governor Spencer Cox to intervene.
The opposition coalition includes Elevate Strategies, Alliance for a Better Utah, the Center for Biological Diversity, the Sierra Club, Utah Physicians for a Healthy Environment, and the Great Salt Lake Audubon Society. A second rally was planned for May 27 in Brigham City, where organizers aimed to match the turnout of the May 4 protest.
On a Reddit thread that hit 7,000 upvotes, commenters drew a comparison that resonated: the project’s 40,000-acre footprint is larger than the city of Seattle. One commenter noted that “pay-walling the complaint process to a foreign billionaire’s tax-exempt data center in your backyard is probably the best encapsulation of American democracy.” The sentiment captures a frustration that goes beyond Utah. Across the country, communities are waking up to the physical costs of AI infrastructure, and they’re finding out that the approval process often moves faster than the public can organize.
How did Box Elder County approve the project?
The approval happened fast. On May 4, 2026, the Box Elder County Commission voted unanimously to advance the Stratos Project Area designation through MIDA. The meeting drew hundreds of opponents who chanted and held signs, but commissioners proceeded.
The political backdrop matters. Utah House Speaker Mike Schultz owns roughly 25,000 acres not far from the proposed site, per KSL reporting. Former U.S. Representative Jason Chaffetz publicly backed the project. MIDA’s structure gives it unusual authority: as a state entity focused on military-adjacent development, it can bypass some of the local planning processes that would normally slow a project of this scale.
The referendum is the opposition’s best remaining lever. The Box Elder Accountability Referendum group needs 5,422 registered voter signatures within 45 days of the May 4 vote to force a November ballot measure. In a county of under 60,000 total residents, that’s roughly 9% of the population. If they hit the threshold, Stratos faces a public vote. If they don’t, the project advances with only the county commission’s approval on record.
Did Kevin O’Leary accuse opponents of being funded by China?
Yes. And it escalated fast.
On May 12, O’Leary appeared on Fox News and accused Gabi Finlayson, a founding partner of the Utah political consulting firm Elevate Strategies, of being “a proxy for the Chinese government.” He made similar claims about Alliance for a Better Utah. On The Tucker Carlson Show, O’Leary expanded the accusation, claiming China was “paying protesters and riling up environmentalists” to slow American data center development.
Both organizations denied the claims. Alliance for a Better Utah identified itself as a nonprofit that “holds politicians accountable and advocates for progressive policies in Utah.” No evidence supporting O’Leary’s funding claims has been publicly presented.
The Tucker Carlson exchange itself turned confrontational, but not over China. Carlson questioned why taxpayers should subsidize infrastructure that primarily benefits hyperscale cloud providers. O’Leary’s response: “Would you prefer all of us that are developing these data centers put down our shovels and stop while the Chinese accelerate theirs?”
The geopolitical framing is deliberate. By linking Stratos to national security and the AI race with China, O’Leary is trying to make opposition to the project synonymous with opposition to American competitiveness. It’s a strategy that works in Washington. Whether it works in Box Elder County is a different question.
Comparison of hyperscale AI data center projects in the United States 2026
What does this mean for AI infrastructure and founders?
Stratos matters for founders because it represents the next phase of the AI compute buildout, and the political backlash that comes with it.
Anthropic’s 80x revenue growth in Q1 2026 wasn’t just a company story. It was a compute demand story. When Dario Amodei described that growth as “too hard to handle,” the bottleneck he was referencing was physical: not enough GPUs, not enough data centers, not enough power. That same constraint is why Anthropic’s $900 billion valuation is partly a bet on its ability to secure compute infrastructure.
For founders building AI-dependent products, the Stratos fight previews a pattern that will repeat across dozens of communities over the next five years. AI is already reshaping engineering headcounts. Now it’s reshaping land use, water rights, and energy policy. Michigan towns rushed to block data centers after a $16 billion Stargate facility overrode local opposition, per Tom’s Hardware. Wisconsin regulators ruled that data centers must cover the full cost of their energy needs, setting a precedent other states may follow.
The practical implication: compute access is becoming a geography problem. Founders who assumed cloud pricing would keep dropping may find that regulatory friction and power constraints create regional bottlenecks. The companies that secure capacity early, whether through direct builds like Stratos or orbital alternatives like Cowboy Space’s $275 million bet on satellite data centers, will have a structural advantage over those relying on spot market availability.
O’Leary’s bet is that the demand will be so overwhelming that local opposition won’t survive contact with the economics. Given that Anthropic, OpenAI, and xAI are all spending billions to secure compute right now, he might be right about the demand. The question is whether the communities hosting these facilities will accept the trade-off, or whether the kind of friction that derails ambitious projects will slow the buildout enough to change the math.
For the 60,000 people in Box Elder County, this isn’t an abstract infrastructure question. It’s a referendum, possibly literally, on whether the AI boom’s physical footprint belongs in their backyard.
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The Stratos Project is a proposed $100 billion, 9-gigawatt AI hyperscale data center campus in Box Elder County, Utah. Developed through a joint venture between West GenCo and O’Leary Digital Limited, the project spans 40,000 acres and would power its operations entirely with on-site natural gas generation connected to the 680-mile Ruby interstate pipeline.
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