The Stratos Project was supposed to be an industrial marvel for the AI age. The proposal—a massive hyperscale data center in Box Elder County, Utah—was initially slated to be more than 2.5 times the ...
Amid mounting criticism for his role in approving the development of a controversial data center in Box Elder County, longtime Senate President J. Stuart Adams lost his reelection bid last week. But ...
In Utah, a proposed data center has become a symbol of the tension between industrial ambitions and conservation.
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‘O’Leary loves data centers. Put it in his backyard’: Residents continue to protest Box Elder data center
BOX ELDER COUNTY, Utah (ABC4) — On Wednesday, the Box Elder County Commission held a committee meeting where residents expressed concerns about the water usage of the approved data center and the ...
In spring 2026, social media users spread a rumor that a new data center in Utah would use about 16 billion gallons of water a year and that the center would be 2.7 times the size of Manhattan. Utah ...
If you hang out in any even vaguely AI-skeptical parts of the Internet, you’ve probably stumbled on plenty of memes and posts premised on data centers’ insatiable thirst for water to power evaporative ...
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