Mike Schmidt

Did you know May is Small Business Month? In Utah, over 99% of businesses are small and employ more than half of the state's workforce. These 371,569 businesses span diverse industries. Celebrate them all year long by shopping local and supporting our community champions. Discover small business hubs across the state: 🐮 Logan: bit.ly/4wMEbYx 🚂 Ogden: bit.ly/41jK6Ww 🌆 Salt Lake City: bit.ly/4sMkfSj 🏔️ Provo: bit.ly/3QLLGOF 🌵 St George: bit.ly/4abaiHn Whether you're traveling, dining, or shopping, remember to shop local to uplift Utah's economy wherever you are.

Meet Lily Shimbashi, Founder and CEO of @thesportsish, and a woman with deep Utah ties. Inspired by her father, Dave Checketts, and her early career in Utah, she's redefining sports media. Discover how she's reshaping storytelling for women and female athletes. 🔗 Read more: bit.ly/4a1P1Qi

The Fast50 Awards registration deadline is fast approaching! 🚀 💫 As one of Utah's most prestigious honors, this award recognizes Utah's most dynamic and fastest-growing companies. Don't miss the opportunity to highlight your success and gain well-deserved recognition. Apply today and take your place in the Fast50 spotlight! ✔️ Award vetting by Tanner 🗓️ Applications close June 5th. 🔗 Apply here today: bit.ly/4f1LdBV 🏆 Last year's winners: bit.ly/3R6T1bL

If your company is growing fast, you need to apply for this today 👇🏼👇🏼

@TrentMano Looks delicious!

Fini Pizza Utah City, UT This kinda blows my mind. Multiple locations in NY, first spot outside of the state is Utah. Will be a regular spot for me. Big lines for opening day, Kevin Love behind the counter, serving up slices.

@Jazzbasketball1 Back when you didn’t know what the score of the game was because they only put it on the screen here & there throughout the game 😏

📽️ 5.3.2000 - OTD 26 the #UtahJazz played an intense & emotional Game-4 in Seattle full of technical fouls (Jerry Sloan, Greg Ostertag), ejections & trash talk between Gary Payton & Karl Malone, to the delight of TNT commentator Danny Ainge. So good. #JazzBasketball #TakeNote

@UtahBusiness @downtownprovo So cool! One of my biggest dreams in life is to have a treehouse like that one 🌳👌🏼

From a treehouse in Provo, Quinn Peterson is elevating business growth and the community around him. As @downtownprovo's Executive Director, he uses unique spaces to boost the local economy and foster genuine connections. Discover his impactful approach and gain insights to enhance your business community. Climb higher and branch out through his toolkit of winning tactics. 🔗 Read more: bit.ly/4tUbbMC

@FaithHJolley @UtahDWR Are white sturgeon naive to those proposed places?

.@UtahDWR is proposing the introduction of white sturgeon in 2 Utah waterbodies, as well as some updates to WMA access rules and a few other items. See the details and comment on the proposals: wildlife.utah.gov/news/2026/04/2…

@aakashgupta Where do they get water for it? 🤔

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.

@buildingslc What will be built there instead?

Coachman's diner to be torn down after years of pleasant surprises. buildingsaltlake.com/coachmans-coul…

@ThatFBGuyRocked @brit_covey2 @utahathletics @Utah_Football @BarstoolUtes @BartleKSLsports @Josh_Furlong @ClarkPhillips21 @UteZone @MarkHarlan_AD @SSN_Utah My favorite @Utah_Football player of all time!

Britain Covey. That guy rocked.

Behind the @utahmammoth's playoff success is a strategy transforming the team and boosting community impact. 🥅🏒 Discover how Smith Entertainment Group's vision is driving a @NHL Stanley Cup run and stronger fan ties through youth programs, fan engagement and top tier facilities. 🔗 Read more: bit.ly/41W4v4f

@UtahBusiness @utahmammoth @NHL @deltacenter @DowntownSLC @VisitSaltLake This is awesome to learn about! The leadership & execution behind it all has made @utahmammoth such a great addition to our state. #TusksUp

(1/2)FUNNEL CLOUD: Mindy Cannon sent me this video of a funnel cloud taking shape just northwest of Fillmore, Utah this afternoon! I sped up the video a little bit so you could see the clear rotation extending down from the cloud. #utwx

@StreetLeague I wish there was a full wood indoor park like this in Utah! Those are the best skateparks 😏

These two went crazy! 🤯 The future is looking bright with Bruce & Yamato #SLSFutures

@ChaseThomason Will it be cold & rainy in the valley?

MOUNTAIN SNOW: A wet storm will bring lots of rain and snow to Utah Sunday and Monday. Snow levels will fluctuate between 6500-7500ft. Most of our mountains above 8000ft can expect about 6-12" of snow with up to 18" in the Cottonwoods and Uintas. Be prepared for winter driving conditions through some of our higher passes. #utwx

@fasc1nate Is this in Utah?

Photograph of Ted Bundy having fun with kids in his neighborhood. The creepiest photos ever taken: bit.ly/3MhKiB3

@SithisVX @fasc1nate Is this in Utah?

@fasc1nate I live very close to that house. Drive by it all the time.

This dude crushes a freestyle skateboarding competition looking like he’s doing his best Rodney Mullen impression.

@ChaseThomason Wow! How did this fire start?

🔥 FIRE UPDATE 🔥 Strong south winds are pushing the #GoshenCanyon Fire in Utah County tonight. The fire has grown to around 200 acres with no containment. A powerful cold front moves in tomorrow, bringing shifting winds and cooler temperatures that could impact fire behavior.