"Three Times BIGGER Than Manhattan" - MEGA AI Data Center Sparks Tech War With Americans
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🗓️ 13 May 2026
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Patrick Bet-David covers Utah residents revolting against Kevin O’Leary’s 40,000‑acre AI data center that’s three times the size of Manhattan, plays shocking audio of jet‑engine‑level noise from similar sites, and debates whether America can expand AI without wrecking neighbors’ water, power, and peace of mind.
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| 0:30.1 | Next story I want to get to is a data center. |
| 0:32.0 | 62 square mile data center is being built in Utah. |
| 0:36.7 | People are not happy about it. Kevin O'Leary was there. But while this has happened, just to give you some fun fact on how big 63-square miles, it's three Manhattan's. Manhattan is 23-square miles. And at the same time, while this is taking place, you have to hear what the sounds like. I don't want to give you a sound yet. Let's first go to this, Rob. |
| 0:54.7 | Is this the town hall? |
| 0:56.0 | Yep, they get right into it. |
| 0:57.0 | Okay, go forward. |
| 1:01.3 | Concern and outrage in Utah. |
| 1:03.9 | Hill sakes for a while. |
| 1:06.1 | Where hundreds of protesters this week |
| 1:07.8 | flooded this meeting of Box Elder County Commissioners. |
| 1:11.0 | Can you be quiet and let our citizens hear what needs to be said, please? |
| 1:15.1 | As they voted to move forward with a controversial data center proposal, backed by celebrity |
| 1:20.1 | Canadian businessman Kevin O'Leary. |
| 1:26.6 | Hello, Sharks. |
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