How Utahns took on Mr. Wonderful and a data center on the Great Salt Lake

Kevin O’Leary of “Shark Tank” fame hopes to build a sprawling data center on the parched shores of the Great Salt Lake. It has become a burning issue in Utah’s looming primaries.

(Kim Raff | The New York Times) Land in the Bar H Ranch in the Hansel valley in Box Elder County, Utah, on Tuesday, June 9, 2026.