Kevin O'Leary pushes back on Tucker Carlson's data center concerns: 'Welcome to America, buddy!'

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Tucker Carlson (left) and Kevin O'Leary (right) in a composite image.
Tucker Carlson and Kevin O'Leary sparred over the future of AI and whether it will benefit Americans.

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Big investors are trading private credit gains for infrastructure bets. Here's where else they're putting money.

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A data center in Vernon, CA
A data center in Vernon, CA

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Kevin O'Leary says his huge data center will create 10,000 construction jobs. We looked at the numbers.

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Kevin O'Leary
"Shark Tank" investor Kevin O'Leary is planning a data center project in Utah.

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The AI industry is turning to an old energy favorite to bring its data centers online fast

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A man stands in front of a natural gas plant that's flaring in Texas
A natural gas plant in Garden City, Texas.

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I helped block a data center in my town and learned how much power locals have

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Jesse Brooks stands in front of fence and wooded area.
Jesse Brooks, who helped push for a data center moratorium in his town.

Jesse Brooks

This blue-collar trade no one is talking about could help you land a fast-growing AI job

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Fiber optic cables
Fiber technicians are in high demand as data center development booms nationwide.

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A massive Oracle data center planned for rural Michigan secures $16 billion in funding

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A digital rendering of a huge data center campus planned for rural Michigan
A digital rendering of the huge 1-gigawatt data center campus planned for Saline, Michigan, which will serve Oracle's AI business.

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Maine is the latest state to try — and fail — to ban new data centers

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Maine Gov. Janet Mills vetoed a bill that would've paused data center development.

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Meta fast-tracks fiber technician training to solve a major data center bottleneck

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A fiber technician pulls cable at a data center.

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Maine is poised to ban new data centers. These 11 other states tried and failed.

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Active servers are seen at a Digital Realty data center in Ashburn, Virginia on November 12, 2025.
The data center infrastructure boom has taken off across the country as it meets local resistance.

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