Utah's Military Installation Development Authority approved a 9-gigawatt data center campus in Box Elder County developed by Kevin O'Leary's O'Leary Digital, which will run entirely off natural gas and generate more power than the entire state currently consumes. The project spans 40,000 acres of private land plus 1,200 acres of military and state property, with Phase 1 targeting 3 GW and full buildout reaching 9 GW — positioned between SoftBank's 10 GW Ohio project and Meta's 7 GW Louisiana facility. The state has offered tax incentives (0.5% energy tax rate, 80% property tax rebate) to attract hyperscale operators like Amazon, Microsoft, or Google, with projections of $250 million annual state sales tax receipts and 2,000 permanent jobs. The project reflects a broader AI infrastructure race with China, which O'Leary noted built 400 gigawatts of new power capacity in the past 24 months largely for AI data centers.