You know Mr. Wonderful from Shark Tank, Kevin O'Leary?
You've got a real business, but you're a pig.
You're greedy.
It's hard to tell where the ruthless businessman schtick ends and the human begins.
Not helping matters.
His recent efforts to build the mother of all data centers in Utah, 40,000 acres worth.
He called it Wonder Valley.
There's a valley, a valley where technology and nature will come together in perfect harmony,
where the future will pulse at every turn.
The people of Utah said no thanks, and the project seems to have tanked.
Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, Oracle,
and the rest of big data want to spend something like half a trillion dollars on AI infrastructure this year alone.
But they're up against data center's serious PR problem.
So on Today Explained from Vox, we're going to hear from a data center PR person on how she's fighting back.
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