May 31, 2026

A 9-gigawatt data centre outraged a Utah community. The governor just issued new rules.

Two people working on computer code at monitors in a bright office workspace
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Utah Governor Spencer Cox signed an executive order on Friday establishing a “higher bar for data center development” in the state. The order is effective immediately. It follows months of community outrage over the Stratos Project, a 40,000-acre hyp...