{"id":34138,"date":"2026-06-17T22:26:30","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T22:26:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/17\/backlash-is-growing-over-kevin-olearys-data-center-he-is-blaming-china\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T22:26:30","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T22:26:30","slug":"backlash-is-growing-over-kevin-olearys-data-center-he-is-blaming-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/17\/backlash-is-growing-over-kevin-olearys-data-center-he-is-blaming-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Backlash Is Growing Over Kevin O\u2019Leary\u2019s Data Center. He Is Blaming China."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<section class=\"ef4qpkp0 css-1579sa9-Container e11lw8gk0\">\n<p class=\"e13wjo0r2 e1bc1vag0 css-1uzoyz5-StyledNewsKitParagraph\" data-type=\"paragraph\" data-testid=\"paragraph\" font-size=\"18\">BOX ELDER COUNTY, <a data-type=\"place\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/topics\/place\/utah\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ekxajjj0 css-i0lbhy-OverridedLink\" rel=\"noopener\">Utah<\/a>\u2014<!-- -->Kevin O\u2019Leary<!-- --> is trying to build one of America\u2019s largest <a data-type=\"industry\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/topics\/industry\/data-centers\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ekxajjj0 css-i0lbhy-OverridedLink\" rel=\"noopener\">data centers<\/a>. That is, he said, if he can stop the Chinese government from interfering.<\/p>\n<p class=\"e13wjo0r2 e1bc1vag0 css-1uzoyz5-StyledNewsKitParagraph\" data-type=\"paragraph\" data-testid=\"paragraph\" font-size=\"18\">O\u2019Leary aims to develop a natural-gas and data-center project covering thousands of acres in the Hansel Valley. For weeks, he has encountered furious pushback from people across the state, largely over the potential impact on the Great Salt Lake, which has been receding for years.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"css-16aepit e1jdulti0\">Copyright \u00a9<!-- -->2026<!-- --> Dow Jones &amp; Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BOX ELDER COUNTY, Utah\u2014Kevin O\u2019Leary is trying to build one of America\u2019s largest data centers. That is, he said, if<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34139,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_animmysite_disable_animation":false,"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/images.wsj.net\/im-01591224\/social","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[214],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-usa-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}