Kevin O'Leary has been one of the most vocal advocates of building more data centers.
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Fox News issued an apology after Kevin O'Leary said during an appearance on the channel that opponents of his Utah data center were proxies for the Chinese government.Several Fox News and Fox Business hosts, including Maria Bartiromo, read out rare on-air apologies after O'Leary made the comments on the network in late May.Fox News host Johnny Joey Jones said in his weekend broadcast that there was "no evidence" that the groups referenced by O'Leary were funded by or working in coordination with the Chinese Communist Party. "He made certain claims relating to the opponents of his project. Mr. O'Leary has now corrected the record," Jones said, adding that "Fox News Media also apologizes for the error."FOX issues an apology: Kevin O'Leary appeared as a guest on the show and discussed the ongoing controversy surrounding his planned data center project in Utah and made claims relating to the opponents of his product. Mr. O'Leary has now corrected the record and explained he has… pic.twitter.com/dh1Y89DPOt— Acyn (@Acyn) June 28, 2026
O'Leary wrote in a Facebook post on Thursday that he had no evidence that the opponents he called out on Fox, which included the Alliance for a Better Utah and Elevate Strategies, are working with China."Who would want us to stop building our electrical grid? Who would want to stop us from having compute capacity to develop AI? Which adversary would want that?" O'Leary said on Fox in May."There's only one: It's China," the "Shark Tank" host added, before proceeding to call out the data center dissidents by name.
