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Utah data center critics spawn "Streisand Effect."

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The big-mouth celebrity investor in the Box Elder “Death Star” data center is eating his words. Kevin O'Leary—who still has the inside track on building a gigantic data center in northern Utah—now says the folks opposing the Death Star are not puppets of the Chinese after all.

Hmmm. No Wilson, we wouldn't call it a change of heart; it's more like a change of underwear. “Recently, I appeared on various news programs and would like to clarify that I have no evidence that Alliance for a Better Utah, Elevate Strategies, Gabrielle Finlayson, Taylor Knuth or Josh Kanter are funded by China or the…

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