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.

Paul Morris, executive director of Utah’s Military Installation Development Authority, which is overseeing the project, said at an April 24 board meeting that the data center is expected, once completed, to generate and consume more than twice the amount of energy currently used across the state of Utah.

The “Stratos” project in Utah will be powered by natural gas from the nearby Ruby Pipeline, according to the data center’s publicly available fact sheet

So, if you believe him, he knows the impacts, he just doesn’t care? More than 2x the power of the rest of the state and powered by fossil fuels? Love that!