Kevin O’Leary came to Utah with a pitch: He gets 40,000 acres of their land, and they get an ugly, energy-guzzling data center that creates minimal long-term jobs. Utahans said, “I’m out,” but the Shark Tank star isn’t taking no for an answer. Instead, he’s claiming that it’s actually the Chinese Communist Party behind the pushback against his data center project, despite a Washington Post report finding little to no evidence to back those claims. The data center, called the Stratos Project, is expected to consist of two separate 20,000-acre plots in the Hansel Valley and Locomotive Valley of Box Elder County, which will each host data center clusters. Per the project’s website, the data centers will consume nine gigawatts of electricity, at maximum capacity, which it identifies as “more than twice what the entire state of Utah currently uses.” That is somehow a selling point in the eyes of the Stratos Project. It’ll also reportedly use 619 million gallons of water, according to a report from Deseret News. The developers also explain that the location was chosen so they can tap into the Ruby Pipeline, a natural gas pipeline that runs through the region. It’ll reportedly cost about $4 billion just for the first phase of buildout and could cost as much as $20 billion by completion, per Utah Money Watch. But all that is worth it, the pitch goes, because the project will help keep “advanced AI computing on American soil.”