Kevin O’Leary, best known as “Mr. Wonderful” from Shark Tank, is pushing forward with a large-scale data center project in the US through his company, O’Leary Digital.
The firm announced it has formed a strategic joint venture with West GenCo LLC to develop Wonder Valley, Utah, a powered compute campus planned for the Golden Spike District of Box Elder County.
According to the company, the project is designed to deliver up to 7.5 gigawatts of power capacity, making it one of the most ambitious data infrastructure developments aimed at supporting artificial intelligence and hyperscale cloud computing.
In a press release, O’Leary Digital said the joint venture will help move the project through regulatory and permitting stages, with West GenCo overseeing state-level coordination.
Two projects anchoring a 15-gigawatt plan
Wonder Valley, Utah, is only one part of a broader infrastructure strategy.
The company is also advancing Wonder Valley, Alberta, a similar project planned in Grande Prairie, Alberta, where permitting is currently underway. Together, the two campuses form a larger platform to support the growing power needs of AI computing.
Across both sites, O’Leary Digital said it is developing around 26,000 acres of land across the US and Canada.
“We have under development approximately 26,000 acres across two jurisdictions with the infrastructure necessary to support power generation and compute capacity at scale,” Kevin O’Leary, chairman of O’Leary Digital, explained in the company’s announcement.
Each Wonder Valley campus is expected to provide 7.5 gigawatts of power generation capacity, creating a combined initial power plan of 15 gigawatts.
The power question
Neither O’Leary Digital nor its partners has detailed exactly how they plan to secure 7.5 gigawatts of electricity for the Utah site. The company’s announcement pointed to “access to major interstate natural gas infrastructure” but stopped short of explaining the generation strategy.
In Alberta, the picture is clearer. Reports indicate the company is planning a natural gas power plant with 8.5 gigawatts of capacity, with most of that output dedicated to its data center operations.
For Utah, the details remain under wraps. What is clear is that the campus is being designed for flexibility. O’Leary Digital says it can accommodate dedicated single-tenant campuses or segmented multi-tenant configurations.
O’Leary has been investing in digital infrastructure for years, including the data center and high-performance computing sectors through companies such as Bitzero. The Wonder Valley projects suggest the investor is now placing an even larger bet on the future of AI infrastructure. In this industry, access to massive energy supplies is becoming just as important as computing hardware.
If both the Utah and Alberta campuses move forward as planned, they could represent one of the largest integrated powered compute developments currently being built, according to O’Leary Digital.
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