Investigative journalist Elizabeth Lane goes deep with @danksterintel to expose Kevin O'Leary's $100 billion Stratos data center buildout in Utah, approved on May 4, 2026 by a quasi-governmental state agency over the chants of 450 residents shouting "Shame, Shame, Shame."
This is not a story about a data center. This is a story about how the rules got rewritten while you were not looking, and the laboratory where they are perfecting the playbook before they ship it to your state next.
Kevin O'Leary is a Canadian-Irish dual citizen who holds a UAE Golden Visa and has publicly stated his intent to pursue full Emirati citizenship. He runs O'Leary Global from Abu Dhabi. The Stratos Project sits on 40,000 acres of unincorporated Box Elder County, runs on 9 gigawatts of natural gas, and is supplied by Tallgrass Energy through a Ruby Pipeline ownership stack that includes Singapore's GIC sovereign wealth fund, Spain's state-related Enagas, Korea's National Pension Service, the UK Universities Superannuation Scheme, and the Canadian Pension Plan.
The approval mechanism is MIDA, the Military Installation Development Authority, a Utah quasi-governmental entity created in 2007 to support military infrastructure that has progressively expanded its statutory authority. MIDA bypasses the Utah Public Service Commission, captures 80 percent of project area property tax revenue and returns it to the developer, cuts energy taxes from 6 percent to 0.5 percent, and exempts 100 percent of personal property tax on data center equipment. The MIDA Board has been chaired by Senate President J. Stuart Adams since 2008. The same man who appoints one of the seats appoints himself to chair the board.
π΄ EVERY HYPERSCALE AI DATA CENTER IS A MILITARY OPERATION:
π΄ Pentagon CDAO awarded Scale AI (Meta owns 49 percent) a $500 million defense contract on May 6, 2026
π΄ Scale AI deploys across the Air Force Survivable Airborne Operations Center, Thunderforge, and the Golden Dome missile defense data architecture
π΄ Meta is building a $10 billion 1 gigawatt data center in El Paso directly adjacent to Fort Bliss
π΄ The Carlyle Group is building Project Jupiter inside the gates of Fort Bliss for the US Army
π΄ Meta partners with Anduril Industries to adapt consumer VR into tactical battlefield AR
π΄ Meta's Llama AI models are integrated into Lockheed Martin, Booz Allen Hamilton, and Palantir defense systems
π΄ THE FEDERAL OVERSIGHT GAP:
π΄ Senators Mike Lee and John Curtis are named in UVU Police Chief Jeff Long's communications about the September 10, 2025 Charlie Kirk event at Utah Valley University
π΄ Both senators hold pro-Israel PAC alignment per Track AIPAC
π΄ Neither has publicly demanded CFIUS review of the foreign-resident principal's Stratos project
π΄ Trump's America First Investment Policy EO streamlined foreign investment reviews instead of strengthening them
π΄ BOX ELDER COUNTY RESIDENT RESISTANCE:
π΄ May 4, 2026: 450+ residents chanted "Shame, Shame, Shame" as the County Commission voted unanimously to consent
π΄ May 7, 2026: Bar H Ranch water rights transfer withdrawn after 2,300+ protest filings
π΄ May 8, 2026: Box Elder Accountability Referendum (BEAR) filed challenges
π΄ 10,000 acre-feet water contract near Snowville still active
You are not watching the private sector build out AI infrastructure. You are watching the United States military, through the private sector, build out AI infrastructure. And you did not get a vote.
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