Box Elder News Journal's Podcast
Box Elder News Journal's Podcast
Controversial data center to move forward after commission vote
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On Monday, from a small antechamber of the Box Elder County Fairgrounds’ Fine Arts Building, the Box Elder County Commission made a controversial vote to approve two resolutions that set the stage to begin the process of developing the proposed Stratos hyperscale data center campus. The two resolutions made official an interlocal agreement between the county and the State of Utah’s Military Installation Development Authority regarding the project area of the proposed 40,000 acre data center, and the county’s consent of the project area. MIDA’s procedures require landowner participation and county consent to add any non-military owned land into a...