Power the future sends letter to lawmakers over data

Kevin O'Leary discusses Utah AI data center project to rival China Kevin O'Leary, chairman of O'Leary Ventures, explains his significant AI data center project in Utah, aimed at surpassing China's technological progress. O'Leary highlights the initiative's ability to generate its own power from a natural gas pipeline, accelerating permitting and providing essential compute power for U.S. AI companies and national defense, spanning 40,000 acres. NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Power the Future, a pro-energy advocacy group, is asking Congress to take a closer look at the opposition to data centers that is springing up across the country.In a letter to Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., and Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., the group asked lawmakers to open formal investigations into millions of dollars in funding they believe is incentivizing nonprofits and local groups to take up an environmental stance against data centers.In their view, it’s a movement that’s trying to look more grassroots than it actually is."We request that your committees open a formal investigation into a coordinated, billionaire-funded, and potentially foreign-backed political campaign designed to block the construction of data center and AI infrastructure across the United States, which sits among the most important economic and national-security buildouts