Kevin O'Leary

It started in Virginia, actually.

The idea that they consume a lot of water, that they are very noisy, and all that's true from stuff that was built 15 years ago, but today that's not the case.

And yet the narrative kept going.

And I thought, who's doing this?

Who would not want us to have compute power?

Who would not want us to build our power grid out?

Because when you build a data center today, you have to develop your own power and you can sell it back to the grid.

That's what we're doing in Utah.

I'm thinking to myself, the Chinese.

They don't want us to do that.

And I went through that whole thing with TikTok, as you may recall, and I actually saw the evidence of how the Chinese were manipulating the algorithm.

Now they're doing it a different way.

And that just kind of pisses me off.

So I'm happy to add compute.

I don't want my kids in 20 years who live in New York being told what to eat for breakfast by the Chinese.

So, you know, I'm kind of on a mission here to compete.

It'll have the most productive economy.

We already know now, just looking at earnings that are coming out as we speak, talk of the earnings this quarter, and I'm precedented in terms of how good they are because somehow, very quickly, and this is probably just serendipitous luck for this administration,

ai compute is now being implemented in all 11 sectors of our economy and it's enhancing both productivity and margin so these companies are making a lot more money than they were anticipated to because ai is very productive and people debate about the job shift and everything else but the fact is the economy is on fire even at a time when we have conflict so if i were the chinese the last thing i want in america

is the five or six tech companies that are competing with me on DeepSeek having more compute capacity.