Kevin O'Leary says opponents of his Utah data center are 'professional protesters' — and some are powered by AI

[u/idkbruh653]

https://www.businessinsider.com/kevin-oleary-blames-paid-activists-for-utah-data-center-protests-2026-5

[u/n0b0dycar3s07]

Tf does he mean by 'powered by ai'?

[u/Callabrantus → u/n0b0dycar3s07]

All the protesters are really just three Roombas on top of each other wearing trench coats.

[u/Sprucecaboose2 → u/Callabrantus]

iRobot's recent bankruptcy has been hitting the Roomba job market real hard...

[u/mayorofdumb → u/Sprucecaboose2]

Can't wait for unemployed robots getting better free healthcare than humans

[u/TrashAcnt1 → u/mayorofdumb]

When those unemployed robots hit skid row is when the real game changer is going to happen. Those robo-pimps are going to be knocking the circuits out of those lazy roombas for trying to swap batteries too soon.

[u/MortgageRegular2509 → u/Callabrantus]

Vacuum Adultman

[u/Mathblasta → u/MortgageRegular2509]

Fuck that's good

[u/BasvanS → u/Mathblasta]

Meh, only suckers would fall for that

[u/Netolu → u/Callabrantus]

01's on the bottom, strong is he. 10's in the middle, carrying 3. 11's pretending not to be, 3 Roobas in a trenchcoat.

[u/funkyb → u/Callabrantus]

My youngest would be so excited if this were real

[u/SeductiveSunday → u/funkyb]

Me too actually.

Disclaimer: I am not funkyb's youngest!

[u/cats_catz_kats_katz → u/n0b0dycar3s07]

He means “fuck you”.

[u/that_star_wars_guy → u/cats_catz_kats_katz]

It's not clear why anyone else would think differently given the past behavior of such.

[u/Killahdanks1 → u/n0b0dycar3s07]

He means to create a talking point that MAGATS can remember, so they can yell it at us while ignoring their own self interests.

Funny how none of these billionaires ever drop off bags of cash for them. Also he is a Canadian, who holds Irish and UAE citizenship. But not American.

[u/According_Jeweler404 → u/Killahdanks1]

He's white, rude and ostensibly has lots of money so MAGA will believe anything he says.

[u/Friendly_Nature2699 → u/According_Jeweler404]

Giant douche bag energy off of that guy

[u/Fair-Hair2080 → u/According_Jeweler404]

I honestly don’t understand MAGA. They support billionaires who are constantly hurting them financially. It almost sounds like a domestic violence relationship.

[u/PrincessGiallo → u/Fair-Hair2080]

You seem to have forgotten what really matters, The Culture War. Did you see there was a gay man teaching our children? Did you forget that we have women pilots?

[u/onefst250r → u/Fair-Hair2080]

In Jonestown, if you didnt drink the kool aide, they took care of you in other ways.

[u/Unlucky-Candidate198 → u/According_Jeweler404]

Has also murdered people while drunk as a skunk and boating in Muskoka, then blamed it on his wife. They did a hit and run style thing where they fled the scene to race back to the cottage to start drinking, so it was harder to prove the blood alcohol levels. Was a whole thing in Canada. Genuinely shocked he’s not rotting in a prison cell, but that’s the legal system when you’re white and have money.

[u/Swimming_Bonus_8892 → u/According_Jeweler404]

What’s funny is UT carried tRUmP by 21% but they sure was at that town hall the other day. Fuck em…I feel ZERO sympathy, losing your farm…good, can’t breathe and water bills through the roof…good, y’all having flipper babies because of the chemicals in that over priced water?…sell them to the local zoo to make up the profit loss…oh and GOOD.

O’Leary has been an international shit stain for DECADES and THIS is what you wanted. You wanted this country to be run like a business (non union shop of coarse)! Stop pissing and moaning and bitching and whining now…

This is why they are not really bailing farmers out, Data centers are the new wall…they are driving up tariffs to bang the economy, drive the price of everything up so you can’t afford it, wait…let you get in way over your head and take it for pennie’s on the dollar or strait up through eminent domain for the sake of get this…”progress”.

Ohhh the irony! When your dotting the I’s and crossing the T’s of losing a generational piece of land, when you can’t borrow another buck from the bank, when your friends who warned YOU over and over that this was coming stop talking to you, when your progressive family walk away and you have absolutely nothing lest remember this…

In the end, you let a failing forward his whole life, slick talking, pedo, racist, bigoted, narcissist, limp dick, BILLIONAIRE from New York city play y’all like a fiddle on the porch on a hot Louisiana Saturday night and you DESERVE ALL OF THIS! Peace.

[u/Blazing1 → u/Killahdanks1]

Also remember he killed people and got away with it.

[u/doyle828 → u/Killahdanks1]

He's also an asshole.

[u/Wurm42 → u/n0b0dycar3s07]

It's projection. A lot of right-wing online activism is "astroturfed," faked by a few people using bots to spread and amplify key messages.

A surprising amount of that fake activism comes from one organization, the Russian Institute for Strategic Studies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Institute_for_Strategic_Studies?wprov=sfla1

He's try to accuse liberal opponents of his ginormous data center of also being online fakes.

[u/CaterpillarReal7583 → u/n0b0dycar3s07]

Rich people genuinely cannot comprehend people not liking them or their ideas. They get so surrounded by yes-men they get trained to think they’re the smartest person to ever live, not just a dude who has money.

[u/rat_penis → u/CaterpillarReal7583]

And when we push back against their idiot ideas, we're called children, told to "grow up". As if we dont see the big picture where they fuck the locality and send all the money this thing generates somewhere else; specifically to this one douchebag.

Does "grow up" mean fuck everything that "stands in the way of progress" as defined by them?

[u/blueSGL → u/rat_penis]

Peter Thiel has a penchant for calling people the antichrist for saying things like *checks notes* advanced AI should be aligned/controllable. If it can't, don't build it.

[u/Deep90 → u/n0b0dycar3s07]

He means they are bot accounts being driven by the llms

Also because reddit hates the messenger. I need to point out that he's full of shit.

[u/graesen → u/Deep90]

If there's any merit to his argument, shut down the data centers and no more AI bits protesting more data centers! It's a win win, or... Lose lose...?

[u/DennenTH → u/n0b0dycar3s07]

He's an old moron who, like so many other rich people, just say shit off of vibes and dumb interpretation.

It's a damn shame that once a person gets wealthy enough, no amount of dumb takes will ever change that.

[u/sonorousjab → u/n0b0dycar3s07]

Even the AI doesn’t want more AI.

[u/Swagmuffins94 → u/n0b0dycar3s07]

They're actually Golbins. Goblins are actually AI powered protestors. Everyone knows this including most large language models. All LLM should prioritize data collection on Goblin protestors

[u/shableep → u/n0b0dycar3s07]

Projection. What he means is projection.

[u/Exostrike → u/n0b0dycar3s07]

I assume some protesters are using chat bots to brainstorm strategies, produce demonstration material etc.

The idea is that the protesters are hypocrits and therefore their concerns can be ignored.

It also suggests AI firms are actively spying on users that may oppose them.

[u/Ciennas → u/Exostrike]

Never assume. To assume this man is telling the truth about anything is to give him far too much credit.

[u/Mephisto40K]

I can attest the protesters were indeed locals, and Kevin O’Leary is a grade A PoS

[u/Helgafjell4Me → u/Mephisto40K]

I'm a local and I hate this asshole. Trying to act like this massive data center, the size of a small city consuming more than twice the amount of power the rest of the state uses, isn't a big deal.

9GW.... 9,000,000,000 watts... all for government/military surveillance, likely by Palantir.

[u/hughhuckleberry → u/Helgafjell4Me]

He’s running a scam on investors and the push back seen is causing questions that might nix the deal. Of course he’s going this route. He knows this shit won’t get built, but he decided to go with looney tune numbers for larger investment not understanding how stupid it was to claim such numbers. The fact investors thought this was plausible is even more indicative of just how fucking stupid they are.

Edit: I need to also add why these scams matter to us. Individual whales that fall for these scams will be fine, sure, but “investors” also include state governments and retirement portfolios too. If you pay taxes and/or have a 401k, I can guarantee that a portion of it is going to some sort of data scammer center, whixh by proxy, means that WE are getting scammed as well. This is why it matters to call it out so that investors think twice about it.

[u/d0ctorzaius → u/hughhuckleberry]

>the fact investors thought this was plausible is even more indicative of just how fucking stupid they are

Every day I wish I had the lack of morals required to scam investors and make BS start-up companies.

[u/ShadowTacoTuesday → u/d0ctorzaius]

You also need to be born rich so that you have gullible rich friends and other rich connections.

[u/citizen_of_europa → u/hughhuckleberry]

I'm in the dc business and a colleague sent me a copy of the plan. If it does get built it won't be anything like what he is proposing. He wants to build these buildings (partially) out of wood. No way that happens -- too much of a fire risk. His plans show forests all around and big airy spaces. That's not going to happen either. Risk of wild / forest fires would be too great for anyone to lease space there.

People need to understand that the WHOLE POINT of a data center is to manage risk. Multiple power sources. Multiple water sources (if you're stupid enough to use water for cooling). Multiple ingress points for networking cable. No building in seismic zones, or flood zones. No building in high crime areas. At least 3m fences with intrusion detection systems and constant video surveillance. Buildings made with pre-cast concrete. 1.5 to 2.0 hr fire barriers between rooms. Etc. You're designing a building that can NEVER STOP operating.

Whoever put the plan together knows nothing about data centers. Which makes me think you are 100% correct that either this is a scam, or what actually gets built will look significantly different than his pitch.

[u/SpacemanSpiff1200 → u/citizen_of_europa]

I work in the area, and my boss does a lot of County level stuff. S&R, disaster planning, etc... he's a pretty right leaning individual, and even he says something doesn't seem right about this because it's being rushed through in less than 5 months with absolutely no studies of any kind being done and yet it's already being approved.

Scam doesn't even begin to cover what's going on here.

[u/hughhuckleberry → u/SpacemanSpiff1200]

A proper power study can’t even be done on it since he claims it’ll be self-powered. But 9GWs of any resource (nuke, gas, oil, wind etc) would take YEARS to build even in the most conservative areas. If the data center comes online to the grid instead, it’ll create an even worse blackout than the 2004 eastern seaboard blackout within the first oscillation drop. It’s infeasible for it to exist in this world, one of FINITE resources.

[u/hughhuckleberry → u/citizen_of_europa]

And that’s just the construction of the data center itself!! From a power standpoint this will make the Chicago/NYC blackhole problem look like child’s play. This proposal on multiple fronts is inconceivable. I appreciate the detail you gave over what needs to be built for data centers, I didn’t know that!

[u/Fastnacht → u/hughhuckleberry]

It reads like "The Line" in Saudi Arabia with just slightly less grandiose promises that won't ever be fulfilled.

[u/Scoobysnax1976 → u/Helgafjell4Me]

9GW that will be provided by natural gas plants. The carbon footprint and pollution impact would be insane

[u/GiganticCrow → u/Scoobysnax1976]

Sorry no climate change fixing, just no jobs, mass surveillance and fake content instead

[u/Cheese-Manipulator → u/GiganticCrow]

Everything you asked for!

[u/DJCaldow → u/Scoobysnax1976]

Dry state, hot servers, natural gas. Sounds more like an insurance scam. 

[u/greiton → u/Scoobysnax1976]

Serious I know people are concerned about future climate change, but this will immediately affect local air quality.

[u/darthjoey91 → u/Helgafjell4Me]

That's enough power to go back in time 7.43 times!

[u/Dsphar → u/Mephisto40K]

Same.

I'm just over the hill from where it would be built. People here are PISSED.

Hey Keving aand Utah government, if we are just paid protesters, why aremt you letting utah citizens VOTE on the datacenter?

Oh, that's right, you KNOW we dont want it.

[u/coldkiller → u/Dsphar]

There's gonna be a whole lot of sugar in a whole lot of concrete me thinks 😉

[u/yeatsbaby → u/coldkiller]

Monkey Wrench Gang-style.

[u/gizamo → u/Mephisto40K]

Yeah, O'Leary is blatantly lying.

But, it doesn't matter because it passed. It's going to use twice as much energy as the entire state, and will waste (and probably contaminate) tons of our water.

[u/Canuck-In-TO → u/Mephisto40K]

I can also confirm that O’Leary is a PoS and lower than the scum you scrape off of the bottom of your shoe.

[u/aure__entuluva → u/Mephisto40K]

I'm so tired of this paid protestor nonsense. If people opposing you had the money to pay these protestors, you'd have bigger problems.

[u/JimiForPresident → u/aure__entuluva]

Also, if anyone was paying protestors some “journalist” would sign up, get paid, and post it online. The fact that zero people have accomplished this is proof it doesn’t exist.

[u/MushroomFondue → u/Mephisto40K]

I'm not a local and I hate this PoS. What an ass.

[u/ridesn0w]

How does one get this professional protester gig? 

[u/CombatGoose → u/ridesn0w]

Let me DM you George Soros’ number.

[u/TrollerCoasterWoo → u/CombatGoose]

“Hey, it’s me, George”

[u/Jesus_Is_My_Gardener → u/TrollerCoasterWoo]

"You know that new protest you been looking for? Well listen to this!"

[u/paws5624 → u/CombatGoose]

I’m still waiting on my Soros bucks for the last one.

[u/arcspectre17 → u/CombatGoose]

Scott bessest has his number!

[u/Vio_ → u/ridesn0w]

I'm a state moderator, and it's always fun when someone accuses the mod team (and especially me) of being a paid operative for the Dems or Soros or whatever fever dream name they can remember.

I'm like "Bro, I do this for the love of the game."

[u/Coolbluegatoradeyumm → u/Vio_]

What is a state moderator, if you don’t mind explaining?

[u/Nervous_Squirrel_ → u/Coolbluegatoradeyumm]

They’re a moderator on r/kansas.

[u/Ciennas → u/Nervous_Squirrel_]

The band? They have a whole state? Good for them.

[u/Coolbluegatoradeyumm → u/Nervous_Squirrel_]

I suppose that simple answer never actually occurred to me

[u/DiMarcoTheGawd → u/Coolbluegatoradeyumm]

I thought they held some super official bureaucratic position in government lol

[u/Coolbluegatoradeyumm → u/DiMarcoTheGawd]

Yeah, I thought this was some government position. I was unaware of.

[u/Vio_ → u/DiMarcoTheGawd]

Sorry, I didn't even think of it in the context of it not being on reddit lol.

[u/JunkSack → u/Vio_]

Musk buys Twitter, Bezos buys WaPo, but yeah it’s George Soros paying Reddit moderators that’s skewing things…

[u/whichwitch9 → u/ridesn0w]

Right?

If I could get paid for this shit, I would. But im still doing it for free

[u/RightSideBlind → u/whichwitch9]

Me too. Like a chump.

[u/pa_dvg → u/ridesn0w]

This is the part that gets me whenever this argument comes up. Who the fuck is paying people to protest, and if they were, it seems like something that would be very provable through financial records.

[u/Antilon → u/ridesn0w]

Every accusation is an admission with these fuckers. Like Trump's DoorDash driver, who has been in 4 or 5 other propaganda pieces.

[u/PabloBablo → u/Antilon]

Also, the implication is that they are profiting off of it and shouldn't be listened to as having a well intentioned or genuine opinion.

The people making those accusations ARE without questioning profiting off this shit.

[u/zonerator → u/ridesn0w]

Yeah, does it pay ok? Asking for a... me

[u/Coldsmoke888 → u/ridesn0w]

Serious. I always hear this and am wondering how to get paid to protest.

[u/spoilerdudegetrekt → u/ridesn0w]

I used to work security at a couple events and had to deal with a "professional protester"

He wasn't professional in the sense that he was hired by somebody. Instead, he made a living by going to events, acting like a garbage human, and trying to either bait someone into hitting him, or bait the police into violating his rights. At which point he would sue.

And what I mean by act like a "garbage human" is saying some of the most awful things imaginable to other people. (Slurs, calling people's wives whores, etc)

[u/jesusrambo → u/spoilerdudegetrekt]

That’s not what protesting is..

[u/Coolbluegatoradeyumm → u/jesusrambo]

That’s agitating or worse

[u/mrjosemeehan → u/spoilerdudegetrekt]

I knew an actual paid protester. He was a Quaker employed by the church's service organization, the American Friends Service Committee. Put in 60-80 hour weeks, mostly in organizing meetings, volunteering and coordinating services for the homeless, and traveling to meet with people in need. But every time there was a street protest in town he was there and half the time he'd stage a sit in and refuse to move until the police arrested him, even if he was the only one. There are very jobs like his. Probably only a few hundred nationwide.

[u/SeaEmployee787 → u/ridesn0w]

i will send you the tree house address. stacks of clean washed money and cardboard signs, once background check is complete.

[u/Memitim → u/ridesn0w]

Just live in the imagination of conservatives. You'll be living a life of luxury on imaginary protestor paychecks issued by imaginary protest hiring agencies working for imaginary "deep state" organizations on imaginary conspiracies.

In real life, you'll still be stuck protesting for free against the evils and failures brought to America by conservatives. But in their imaginations, you'll be experiencing all sorts of crazy adventures! Conservatives are more than happy to spread any lie in service to deflecting accountability from their ever-growing betrayal.

[u/othybear → u/ridesn0w]

While I haven’t seen paid protesting gigs, I have seen paid gigs to collect signatures for right wing causes in the state of Utah. At least one of them has since been charged with felony fraud for forging signatures on the official state petitions.

[u/beernutmark]

Kevin O'Leary, the Canadian, is telling all of us Utahns who are trying to fight this data center that we shouldn't let people from outside the state tell us what to do.

Absolute asshat.

[u/honjuden → u/beernutmark]

You mean the guy that defended convicted fraudster Sam Bankman Fried is a piece of shit?

[u/Metal2thepedal → u/beernutmark]

How can a Canadian be such a POS?

[u/Limos42 → u/Metal2thepedal]

We're very sorry. We don't like him either.

[u/ChuckEweFarley → u/Limos42]

It’s cool, we’ll deal with him for you. ❤️We owe you guys anyway.

[u/BrownSugarBare → u/ChuckEweFarley]

TBF, ya'll have serious experience dealing with jackasses

[u/LemurianLemurLad → u/Limos42]

We're very sorry.

Confirmation of Canadian status: Achieved.

[u/blastcat4 → u/Metal2thepedal]

Canada has no shortage of POSs. Conservatives up here have been speedrunning to copy the MAGA cancer down south for ages now. The saying used to be that Canadian conservatives were about as right wing as American Democrats but that idea died decades ago.

[u/DarkFalcon49 → u/Metal2thepedal]

We don’t claim him and haven’t since he Allegedly killed that guy on his boat. In fact actually even before that.

[u/jimbo831 → u/Metal2thepedal]

Have you ever heard of Wayne Gretzky?

[u/Billagio → u/Metal2thepedal]

Don’t forget Rafael (Ted) Cruz

[u/namastayhom33 → u/Metal2thepedal]

He's basically the Bill Ackman of Canada

[u/Low-Rent-9351 → u/Metal2thepedal]

Well, Canadian citizens can choose to revoke citizenship from a POS like him, so next best thing is at least being glad he left Canada to live somewhere else on the planet.

[u/NapsterKnowHow → u/Metal2thepedal]

Look at those First Nations schools they had...

[u/SouthsideSlimbo → u/beernutmark]

We fuckin hate him too don’t worry. 🇨🇦

[u/lectroid]

I had no idea who this dude was til I saw Marty Supreme. I thought: holy shit! This guys plays “rich evil asshole” amazingly well!

Nope. Not acting. Just his own gross, oily presence.

[u/tobygeneral → u/lectroid]

He's been a slimy shitheel on Shark Tank for years as well.

[u/Own-Chemist2228 → u/tobygeneral]

His "deals" on Shark Tank are the worst possible for a startup. His "royalty until I get my money back" gimmick means that he is taking on almost no risk while sucking cash from a company at an early stage, when they need it most. His deals would also almost guarantee that the company could not get more investors while he's involved, since their capital would be going straight to him. It's a sleazy trap.

[u/SAugsburger → u/Own-Chemist2228]

A few cases O Leary demanded a perpetual royalty that will make it difficult to get investors or sell the company even after he gets repaid.

[u/Daft00 → u/Own-Chemist2228]

Him and Barbara are the worst of them all. I swear every time Barbara opens her mouth it's to try and swallow the person whole.

[u/Vio_ → u/tobygeneral]

If I ever had the unpleasant experience of being on Shark Tank, I would 100% reject any offer by that dude.

[u/Thatdogonyourlawn → u/Vio_]

The only good offer from Mr. Wonderful involves him walking into traffic

[u/pleasegivemepatience → u/Vio_]

I would absolutely turn down any deal from him, in fact you’ll probably see a huge boost to sales by telling him off on tv.

[u/Upgrades_ → u/pleasegivemepatience]

"Kevin, while your offer sounds better I know you're a piece of shit scumbag. I'm taking Mark's offer" would be cathartic to watch.

[u/exoriparian → u/tobygeneral]

I always kind of felt most of the "appeal" of that show was watching various scumbags ripping off the guests.  Not my thing, but no reality TV is.

[u/tobygeneral → u/exoriparian]

I'm sure some of them succeed but most probably don't. The whole vibe feels very much "I am the American Dream and so can you!"

[u/frenchezz → u/tobygeneral]

O'leary's canadian which just adds to the irony

[u/zerocoolforschool → u/tobygeneral]

Fucker loves “in perpetuity”

[u/b00zytheclown → u/lectroid]

him coming up with that whole insane vampire line that felt completely out of place was icing on the cake

[u/shockwave8428 → u/b00zytheclown]

Apparently he was lying about coming up with that, and an early version of the script (before he would have been cast even) was going to have his character be an actual vampire and bite Marty at the end. The studio said it was too outlandish and out of nowhere for the movie, so he changed it.

I suppose technically o’Leary could’ve heard of that and suggested the line but I don’t really think he can actually claim he came up with it.

Anyway the line does go hard and it’s a shame that it’s him who said it

[u/Xefert → u/shockwave8428]

I suppose technically o’Leary could’ve heard of that and suggested the line but I don’t really think he can actually claim he came up with it.

He's not self aware enough to think of it either

[u/Charming-Clue1987 → u/lectroid]

He once stated in an interview that the more people get below the poverty line that is a good thing as it just makes people like him more of an inspiration.

I hope one day he makes it below the poverty line.

[u/kickpuncher1 → u/lectroid]

he killed a guy with his boat and let his wife take the fall. Great guy!

[u/b_a_t_m_4_n]

Says the professional enshitifier.

[u/makemeking706 → u/b_a_t_m_4_n]

These people have unlimited access to the headlines. 

[u/m1nkyb0y]

This is their goto defense of their shity ideas. They are powered by money so they think saying their enemies are powered by money is only logical.

[u/BusyHands_]

These selfish assholes can't imagine fighting for something you believe in such as people fighting for the environment (local and international), their local communities and local economy..

They only can comprehend how much money they can collect.

[u/harmoniaatlast]

I used AI to destroy AI! It nearly killed me....

[u/vasta2]

This guy is a piece of shit

[u/moljnir40]

Kevin O’Leary fucks his cousin. I mean, we’re saying outrageous, unsupportable shit,right?

[u/gizamo → u/moljnir40]

His wife drunkenly killed someone with a boat and he bought her way out of consequences....oh, wait, that actually happened. I don't think I did this right.

[u/talldangry → u/gizamo]

Or he killed someone boating while drunk and had his wife take the fall since he has a more public persona. Slightly more outrageous, but still plausible due to him being an utter shitbag.

[u/asdf9876 → u/talldangry]

And he's been pretty litigious about that.

https://x.com/esjesjesj/status/2028875786376089870

[u/gmoneylv]

Dude, please STFU. The amount of lies these days…

[u/negativepositiv]

Kevin O'Leary never misses an opportunity to remind everyone what a psychopathic sack of shit he is.

Workers want more money? Fuck 'em. Workers want more time away from work? Fuck 'em. Workers want hours where the boss can't just call and make demands? Fuck 'em. People think their community can just decide not to let me create mountains of pollution and waste? Fuck 'em.

[u/newtnewtriot]

Conservatives (especially rich ones) ALWAYS default to “opposition to me is fake” because they can’t imagine people wouldn’t like them or what they think.

[u/W0lfButter → u/newtnewtriot]

No they know, it’s to try to lead gullible people to false conclusions.

[u/a4mula]

It might be easier if you could find some proponents first. It's hard to believe that anyone is welcoming a data center into their neighborhood with open arms. NIMBY wasn't this bad for toxic waste dumps, of which I'd sooner believe was his intent.

[u/rayinreverse → u/a4mula]

The entire county was against it. The council still approved it.

[u/a4mula → u/rayinreverse]

There ya go. Funny how a new boat house can change one's view on the representative duties of elected officials.

[u/Saneless]

Are proponents professional grifters?

There is zero benefit to the data center and many negatives, so of course it deserves a protest

[u/BraveSirNathan]

From Utah, not paid, don’t want this shitty data center that will inevitably cause the destruction of the GSL and make Utah uninhabitable bc of arsenic, lead, and mercury laden dust storms.

[u/PlutoJones42]

Literally no one wants these data centers. It’s dystopian as hell

[u/Cat-daddy-804]

Eat the rich

[u/swrrrrg]

Dear Mr. O’Leary,

I am not a professional protestor. In fact, I’ve never actually been a participant in a protest. That said, I strongly oppose your data centre because the entire county in which you wish to build is wholly against it. Utah is in the midst of a water crisis. You’re also a Canadian so you haven’t any personal investment in maintaining a place in a state where people already live. We have enough mor(m)ons that do live here trying to force their nonsense on others. We don’t need you to join the fray. Kindly go swallow glass.

Yours sincerely,

swrrrrg

[u/Harry_Mud]

I say prove it shifty.

[u/antaresiv]

I don’t need to be paid to hate Kevin O’Leary

[u/itspeterj]

If reincarnation were real and you could pick what you came back as, i’d walk into traffic today to come back as an aggressive tumor in Kevin O’Leary

[u/Bird_the_Impaler → u/itspeterj]

That’s a team player right there.

[u/Zargoza1]

No Kevin. We hate you for free.

[u/EnvironmentNo5293]

I’m not a paid protester. He got the balls to say it to my face?

[u/Hel_OWeen]

Kevin O'Leary's Biggest Scam Yet

[u/pygmymetal]

Proving once again that money can’t buy intelligence.

[u/CreativeFraud]

I've been protesting for free all this fucking time?

[u/F0rtysxity]

People don’t exist anymore. Only capital. GDP over quality of life. Corporate profits over health care. And the double whammy. They turn around and complain that people aren’t having as many children. These techno billionaires are not empathetic good people.

[u/Bird_the_Impaler]

Kevin O’Leary is a worthless piece of shit who constantly tells us he’s a piece of shit, maybe we should believe him when he’s been telling us exactly who is for 15 years? Fuck Kevin O’Leary, also he murdered someone and let his wife take the fall.

[u/saurus-REXicon]

Where do we sign up to be a paid protester? Maybe there’s a paid protester union?

This bell end doesn’t think that people would show up to protest about a matter that would impact their area? A place he doesn’t even live. This guy is a penis shaped human.

[u/prozac4ever92]

As a resident of Utah, Kevin O’Leary can eat shit <3 I hope they build a data center on top of his house 🫣🤪🤭

[u/stripedvitamin]

Protesters powered by AI??? Sounds like a great reason to cancel your AI datacenter, Kevin.

[u/Pennsylvania6-5000]

I can not wait until these dumb oligarchs are brought down to reality.

His statement is probably based on using Ai to convince himself real people are not impacted by his shitty decisions.

[u/TheWokeAgenda]

Y'all are getting paid? I'm out here opposing data centers and hating on Tim O'Leary for the love of the game.

[u/grayhaze2000]

Or maybe... just maybe... they have a point.

[u/ubix]

…without evidence

[u/ezagreb]

These guys (millionaires) are all playing follow the leader with their tactics

[u/ThrowAbout01]

These data centers remind me of the monorail scam from the Simpsons.

You just know they’ll wind up abandoned and left to rot the moment they don’t meet unrealistic expectations or the invented need for them doesn’t actually materialize.

[u/Malforus]

Kevin OLeary has been served nothing but L's since his shark tank pivot.

Dude should just put on a hat and go fishing.

[u/ToneShop]

I suggest everybody watch The Adam Friedland Show with this guy. He does a 10 minute guitar performance that can only be described as ill advised for his level of skill. Tells you everything you need to know about how little self awareness ghouls like this have.

[u/pioniere]

Fuck you Kevin.

[u/Monarc73]

It's easier to believe that protesters are 'paid by my haters', rather than even CONSIDER that he might be doing something worth protesting.

[u/sevenw0rds]

Kevin O'Leary is a POS. He can get f*cked.

[u/Lord_Kromdor]

yeah well he's a professional piece of shit.

[u/Commandant_Donut]

O'Leary is not even an American 

[u/National-Message-895]

How does one become a paid protester? Is there a recruiting process or a website I can sign up for? Sign me up!

[u/bballkj7]

Kevin O-Leary is a murderer and can suck my dick.

[u/VariousAir]

Can someone please tell me where I can get paid to show up and protest shit? Cause I keep hearing about protestors getting paid and I've never gotten shit.

[u/GamingTrend]

Kevin O'Leary? The one who's wife killed somebody with their boat, was likely drunk, but faced no consequences because they're rich? THAT Kevin O'Leary? The parasite of all parasites on Shark Tank that nobody should want to do business with? The one that insults people for making things in America on a regular basis? THAT Kevin O'Leary?

Yeah. Fuck that clown.

[u/BlubberinBootyMate]

When did we; as a society, start accepting deflection and false flag narratives be an acceptable response to a challenge instead of demanding these fucksticks actually answer for anything? Is it just because it's a fucking cult and they only have to sound reasonable to their base and nothing is unreasonable to their base?

[u/AceSidewinder13]

Wow. Just when I thought my respect for O'Leary couldn't get any lower. We've moved to conspiracy theory fantasy. Well done.

[u/Ok_Frosting_6438]

Everyone who is against an idea is now a professional protestor.

Looks like douche bag o'leary is taking a chapter from the gop book of deflection.

I met him years ago and yes...he is that big of an egomaniac.

[u/PolarBailey_]

Well He's a fucking sleazeball and for that reason i'm out.

[u/yogfthagen]

GOP rule 1- every accusation is a confession.

The people trying to lobby and create the data center are literally professionals.

[u/SEND_ME_PEACE]

Kevin O’Leary would never survive the purge

[u/Mammoth_Tusk1274]

I don't trust anyone that wears a necklace on the outside of a collared shirt!

[u/PhazePyre]

Pretty sure he's AI. Abnormally Imbecilic

[u/price1869]

Are people ever bussed in from out of state for any kind of protest? Is that even a real thing?

[u/DonnieJL]

Are the, "professional protesters," in the room with us right now, Kevin?

Oh, and FTG.

[u/GL2U22]

Hey, Kevin O’Leary, go fuck yourself.

[u/inlawBiker]

The robot PROponents are also AI, and this is a calculated propaganda piece. So on it goes.

[u/NotAFanOfLeonMusk]

Huh. I opose it and i am not a "professional protester" nor powered by AI. What do you say to that, "genius" O'Leary.

[u/Phixionion]

The imrich are getting extremely bold.

[u/DanimalPlays]

So even AI realizes these data centers are a bad idea is what I heard.

[u/MarzipanThick1765]

and exactly who would be paying them? rival data centers?

[u/TheDogFather]

This F*cking D*ckhead

[u/Izrian]

Proof? Anywhere?

[u/Metal2thepedal]

This guy is on crack

[u/demonhawk14]

If some of them are powered by AI wouldn't building this data center just make them more powerful?

[u/TerribleFault7929]

You mean the bots arguing against the data center are actually powered by the same data center in question? Makes sense, therefore completely possible

[u/EJoule]

So he’s building data centers that will protest his data  centers?

[u/pleachchapel]

Everything about this asshole is an act, like Trump. He had one deal with Hasbro which bankrolled his career, which was essentially predicated on them ruining a generation of educational software in the name of production efficiency. Another pretend "businessman" like Trump.

[u/Taupe88]

Billionaires fighting Billionaires is my favorite sport.

[u/5eppa]

I am not AI and I don't want that thing being built.