Developers have agreed to halve the size of a planned data centre in Utah that was originally intended to be 40,000 acres, or almost three times the size of Manhattan, after a public backlash, in the latest sign of growing opposition to the massive build-out of such facilities.
Venture capitalist Kevin O’Leary, known for appearing on the television programme Shark Tank, promised in a letter to Utah Senate President J. Stuart Adams to remove 19,430 acres from the facility’s footprint and would leave most of the remainder empty.
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He said this would comply with Adams’ earlier call to reduce the size of the Stratos project by 75 percent.
