CommonCourtesy

Kevin O'Leary just got Utah to approve a 9 gigawatt data center. The entire state of Utah currently uses 4 gigawatts. The campus is called Stratos. It will run entirely off-grid. 41,200 acres in Box Elder County. Phase 1 is 3 GW. Full buildout reaches 9 GW, more than twice what Utah consumes today across homes, factories, hospitals, and the 48 existing data centers combined. Power comes from the Ruby Pipeline, a 680-mile interstate natural gas line that already crosses northern Utah on its way from Wyoming to Oregon. Kevin's team builds generation on-site and taps a pipeline that's already in the ground. The MIDA director told county commissioners the facility "will not take one electron" from the public grid. This is what the AI buildout actually looks like in 2026. The binding constraint on hyperscale has shifted to grid interconnection. The queue in most ISOs now runs 5 to 7 years. Hyperscalers do not have 5 to 7 years. So the workaround is pipeline gas. You stop waiting on PJM, MISO, ERCOT, or WECC, and you build your own power plant next to the rack. Stratos pushes that further than anyone has dared. 9 GW is roughly the output of nine nuclear reactors. They plan to generate it from natural gas on private land, as fast as the turbines can be installed. Utah cut the energy tax from 6% to 0.5% to land the project. The MIDA director said the quiet part out loud: "we don't want to strangle the goose that lays the golden egg." Local pushback was inevitable. The project doesn't draw from the public grid, so household power bills are untouched. The protest is about 40,000 acres of construction, gas turbine emissions, water draw for cooling, and what happens to a cattle county that's about to host the largest private power plant in the country. Kevin spent two decades on Shark Tank picking apart cap tables. He is now building the largest off-grid generation campus in North America and renting it to AI labs. Compute scarcity is a power problem dressed up as a chip problem.

It's been 7 months since we had our baby and we're still receiving unexplained hospital bills in the mail. Hardly ever an adequate description of services. Just a QR code to pay online. It feels intentionally confusing and difficult to get answers. We want price transparency.

How come Hasan Piker isn’t in jail?

‘Caitlyn’ Jenner lobbies Trump over MALE passport designation ‘This is a SAFETY factor. I can’t travel internationally anymore’ ‘I was in Mar-a-Lago two months ago, wrote a letter, explaining all of this to him, how it’s affecting me and a lot of other people’

Washington D.C. certainly doesn’t need more hate and disrespect from its leaders. This district deserves someone who understands that to represent people, you have to respect them first. Read my full statement here.

Nate took accountability for posts he made when he was 20 & apologized without making excuses. That tells you everything about how much he has grown in 17 years. I know who Nate is today & he is someone who will fight for our reproductive rights when so many others are hedging.