Kevin O'Leary says opponents of his Utah data center are 'professional protesters' — and some are powered by AI

from Business Insider

O'Leary is dismissing critics of the multibillion-dollar project as "professional protesters" and suggesting some of the opposition is being amplified by artificial intelligence.

In a post on X and an accompanying video, O'Leary, also known as Mr. Wonderful, said concerns about the project — including its impact on air, water use, heat, and noise — are well understood by his team.

"I'm actually the only developer of data centers on earth that graduated from environmental studies, so I'm pretty aware of what these concerns are," he said in the clip, posted Tuesday. 

The Box Elder County data center is facing pushback from those worried about environmental strain and resource use, a common flash point as energy-hungry data centers fueling the growth of AI expand across the US...

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‘Shame! Shame! Shame!’: Local Residents Furious After Shark Tank Billionaire’s Data Center Approved in Utah

(You pay for their football stadiums. You pay for their hockey arenas. You pay for their tax breaks. And if you are in the military, sometimes you pay for their expansionist imperial ambitions with your lives. So today the masters of the universe can't figure out why you balk at paying for their water and electric bill when they want to make a shit-ton of money commodifying your personal data and spying on you. Don't you know your place in the brave new techno-feudal state they are building for us? Luddite.)

from Common Dreams

County commissioners in Box Elder County, Utah, were deluged with chants of “Shame! Shame! Shame!” from a crowd of hundreds on Monday night as they voted unanimously to move forward with a sprawling “hyperscale” artificial intelligence data center project that many residents fear will cause energy prices to soar and imperil water access.

The project, known by state officials as “Stratos,” was proposed by the celebrity venture capitalist Kevin O’Leary and has been rushed along by Utah’s Military Installation Development Authority, which recently approved a gigantic energy tax break for the program to help “lure” the billionaire “Shark Tank” investor.

The development, dubbed “Wonder Valley” after O’Leary’s “Mr. Wonderful” TV persona, would span more than 40,000 acres of northern Utah—more than two and a half times the size of Manhattan—and would consume more than twice the electricity currently used by the entire state if approved, according to Axios.

Addendum: Round Two Begins

 

Yep. She's back.

UPDATES on Iran and the Public Menace that is Novichok

UPDATES on Iran and the Public Menace that is Novichok 

Drop Site News https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/iran-ceasefire-lebanon-israel-east-wing-trump 

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Trump Wanted to Trigger Global Economic Doomsday Scenario with Iran Invasion

Trump and the Zionist cronies at the Heritage Foundation (Project 2025) have been making the economy scream since he came back into office in Jan. of 2025. Now he admits while answering a question that he planned for up to $300 barrels of oil when he decided to attack Iran on behalf of Netanyahu. That would trigger a doomsday scenario casting much of the Westernized world into a global depression that would ultimately pave the way for the Great Reset. Remember, the last time they tried to do this... Covid-19... Trump and his same advisors were ALSO IN CHARGE BACK THEN. This is not conspiracy theory. This is not partisan hackery (I leave that to the likes of Secular Talk and the Midas Touch)   This is PATTERN RECOGNITION. Everything they do is an attempt to collapse the economy and now they have the perfect mechanism for doing it on a global scale.

WEF article https://www.weforum.org/stories/2026/04/iran-war-energy-economy-food/

WEF partners page https://www.weforum.org/partners/#search

Trump video https://x.com/FurkanGozukara/status/2051708176739832287 

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Leg and Cat UPDATE

by Scott Creighton

Turns out my leg is now infected. Not good for animal bites. 

Home health care person wanted me to go directly to hospital for an antibiotic IV drip but instead I talked her into ordering a specialist to come by and check on the wound and maybe prescribe a different more effective one. No one to look after the animals.

Spoke directly to my GP who said he is concerned and wants me to come see him tomorrow if I don't hear from the specialist by noon.

Also, the person doing Novichok's evaluation called and we had a nice chat about her. Her 10 day observation period is up on Weds. and they will be making a decision as to whether or not they can put her up for adoption then. 

I told her what a sweetheart Novichok is and that it's my fault for not closing the door. I let her know I lived with that cat in my office and around the house for 7 weeks and she would make someone a great companion... as long as they don't have dogs.

I also told her if they decide they can't put her up for adoption, then I would come down and get her and bring her back here. Not going to let this happenstance cost her her little life. So either way, Novichok is going to be OK.

The infection makes me very tired. I'm sleeping a lot as a result. Now it makes sense. 

Anyway, thought I would let you guys know what is up. Will give you an update as soon as I know something. Take care. 

Op. Freedom PLUS: The PLUS is... Go Real Fast

Operation Freedom is DOA already after Iran shot a couple missiles across the bows of a couple US Navy vessels trying to pass thru the Strait of Hormuz. This is leading to folks claiming TrumpyBear has been humiliated by the Iranians and I think maybe we shouldn't be megaphoning that narrative as it seems like Mossad propaganda designed to shame Trump into bombing Iran some more. Anyway, here's some news this morning. Enjoy.

Iran 14 point plan https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/5/3/whats-irans-14-point-proposal-to-end-the-war-and-will-trump-accept-it 

Trump's horrible numbers https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-approval-falls-lowest-his-term-over-prices-epstein-files-reutersipsos-poll-2025-11-18/ 

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The Epstein Suicide Note Story is Just Plain Stupid... and other news

The Epstein Suicide Note Story is Just Plain Stupid... and other news 

NYT article https://nomadiceveryman.blogspot.com/2026/05/jeffrey-epsteins-possible-suicide-note.html 

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Jeffrey Epstein’s Possible Suicide Note Hidden From Public View

from the New York Times

A suicide note purportedly written by Jeffrey Epstein in a Manhattan jail has been kept secret for nearly seven years, locked up in a New York courthouse.

A cellmate said he discovered the note in July 2019, after Mr. Epstein was found unresponsive with a strip of cloth around his neck. Mr. Epstein survived that incident but weeks later was found dead in the jail.

The note was eventually sealed by a federal judge as part of the cellmate’s own criminal case, according to documents and interviews. That means investigators scrutinizing Mr. Epstein’s high-profile death lacked what could have been a key piece of evidence.

On Thursday, The New York Times petitioned the judge to unseal the note, which said it was “time to say goodbye,” the cellmate, Nicholas Tartaglione, recalled. While Mr. Tartaglione mentioned the note on a podcast last year, the scrawled message has remained hidden from public view, even at a time of unprecedented transparency around the government’s investigations into Mr. Epstein. Since December, the Justice Department has released millions of pages of documents related to the sexual predator.

The Times has not seen the note and could not find it in the Epstein files. A Justice Department spokeswoman said the agency had not seen it.

Trump likens American forces seizing Iranian ships to pirates

(If he hadn't been born to the father he was, this man wouldn't have risen to a position higher than assistant manager of a Burger King and he wouldn't have kept that job for long because he would have been caught stealing out of the cash drawer. He's fucking garbage. He's a garbage human being and his cult still worship him like Jesus. I guess they think Jesus was a garbage human being as well.) 

from RT

US President Donald Trump has joked that American forces are behaving like pirates as he boasted about the capture of tankers and cargo ships attempting to breach the blockade of Iranian ports.

Oil prices surged past $120 a barrel this week for the first time since 2022, while Trump’s approval rating fell to 34%, a record low in Reuters/Ipsos polling.

Speaking at the Forum Club of the Palm Beaches dinner in Florida on Friday, Trump recalled how a destroyer fired at the Iranian-flagged cargo vessel Touska near the Strait of Hormuz on April 19 before it was boarded by US Marines.

“We took over the ship. We took over the cargo, took over the oil. It’s a very profitable business. Who would have thought we were doing that? We’re like pirates. We’re sort of like pirates,” Trump said, prompting laughter in the audience...

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