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SALT LAKE CITY — Utah House Speaker Mike Schultz owns more than 25,000 acres of land not far from the site of a planned large data center in Box Elder County, a review of property records shows. The ...

Nobody wants this in their backyard – yet for many Americans in rural communities, there isn’t much of a choice. In Utah, the Box Elder County Commission recently voted unanimously to go through with ...

BOX ELDER COUNTY, Utah — A group that is standing in opposition to the proposed Stratos-MIDA Data Center in Box Elder County has filed an application challenging its approval. BEAR or the Box Elder ...

ABC4's Northern Utah Correspondent Kade Garner spoke with Stratos Project developers and residents about what comes next for the now-approved AI data center agreement in Box Elder County.

TREMONTON, Utah (KUTV) — Amid boos and jeers from hundreds of protestors, the Box Elder County Commission unanimously approved a plan to move forward with a massive data center. Following chants of ...

Farmland conversion is generally permanent, making site selection and land-use policy critical for long-term agricultural viability. Data centers create both economic opportunities and resource ...

A WIRED review of permits for data center projects using natural gas and linked to OpenAI, Meta, Microsoft, and xAI shows they could emit more than 129 million tons of greenhouse gases per year. As ...

A modern data fabric makes it possible to turn existing enterprise knowledge into a trusted foundation for AI. In partnership withSAP Artificial intelligence is moving quickly in the enterprise, from ...

The vast data centers that power artificial intelligence guzzle huge amounts of energy but they also have another alarming impact, according to new research. They are creating “heat islands,” warming ...

Don Murray is Cofounder & CEO of Safe Software and has spent his career helping organizations bring life to data to make better decisions. For years, the industry defined an organization’s success ...

John Steinbach was shocked to receive a $281 electricity bill in January 2026—a huge spike from the roughly $100 he’d paid the previous month. “It’s just so far beyond any bill that I’ve ever had,” he ...