KEY POINTS Kevin O’Leary apologized for mishandling the public messaging around Utah’s proposed Stratos Project data center, acknowledging that his team “really screwed this up.” Kevin O’Leary, the “Shark Tank” investor most recently famed for backing a massive data center in Box Elder County, Utah, apologized to MSNOW on Thursday for the project’s poor public messaging. In Ellendale, North Dakota, the $11 billion Polaris Forge 1 data center is helping residents in terms of taxes and electricity costs, according to data center proponents. Later, speaking to the Deseret News, Smith said discussing the upsides of data center development is “like talking to a brick wall.” “Decision-makers will benefit from a careful fiscal analysis of each data center proposal,” the report said.