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          "title": "Box Elder County approved the largest data center in the country. Now what?",
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          "title": "Company withdraws its bid for data center water, but not because it's backing down",
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          "title": "Utahns rally at Capitol against Box Elder County data center project",
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        {
          "title": "Utah protesters want more sunlight on data center plan and its effects on water and air",
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          "date": "2026-05-14",
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        },
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          "title": "There's another water rights application for the Box Elder County data center project",
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        },
        {
          "title": "Renderings show vision for massive data center proposed in Utah, but permits could take years",
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          "publisher": "Utah News Dispatch",
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        },
        {
          "title": "Protect the water, the air, the land: Hundreds demand halt on Box Elder data center plan",
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          "publisher": "Utah News Dispatch",
          "date": "2026-05-23",
          "source_tier": 4
        },
        {
          "title": "Second water right application for Kevin O'Leary's Utah data center project withdrawn",
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          "publisher": "The Salt Lake Tribune",
          "date": "2026-05-27",
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        {
          "title": "Second water rights request withdrawn for embattled Box Elder County data center proposal",
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        {
          "title": "Second water rights application for Box Elder County data center withdrawn",
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          "date": "2026-05-27",
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        },
        {
          "title": "Box Elder County residents won't get to vote on data center referendum, county attorney says",
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          "publisher": "Utah News Dispatch",
          "date": "2026-05-28",
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        },
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          "title": "Box Elder County approves moratorium on data centers. Too late, some say.",
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        {
          "title": "Cox pushes MIDA reforms after data center blowup",
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          "title": "Utah Gov. Cox calls Stratos data center approval process not good, urges reform",
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        {
          "title": "Letter: Utah cannot afford to be overrun by rich data center developers - The Salt Lake Tribune",
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          "title": "Utah planned the world’s biggest data center. Then came the bipartisan pushback. - The Christian Science Monitor",
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        {
          "title": "Kevin O'Leary Admits ‘We Have Not Properly Communicated’ Utah Data Center Plans, Promises More Transparency - Yahoo Finance",
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        },
        {
          "title": "O'Leary says he botched the messaging on Utah data center - moneywise.com",
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          "title": "Stratos backlash leaves Gov. Cox, lawmakers open to more data center oversight - NPR Utah | KUER",
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          "title": "A Utah wildfire is burning near the planned Box Elder County data center site. Here’s what we know. - The Salt Lake Tribune",
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          "summary": "The Stratos Project is set to take over 20,000 acres of desert brush and farmland in Box Elder County, abutting the Great Salt Lake",
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          "summary": "Kevin O'Leary, backed by investor, plans to rename Hansel Valley to Wonder Valley",
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          "summary": "A hyperscale data center was proposed in Box Elder County and faced opposition",
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          "summary": "The Salt Wells Fire is burning in Box Elder County's Hansel Valley, where the Stratos data center and energy campus is planned",
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          "summary": "Governor Spencer Cox said at his monthly news conference that the Stratos approval process was not good and that he would push legislation to reform the Military Installation Development Authority, including a larger role for the governor's office.",
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          "summary": "Litigation over referendum challenging Box Elder County Commission's vote to consent to MIDA project area has complicated future of Stratos",
          "source_url": "https://utahnewsdispatch.com/2026/08/20/after-data-center-debacle-gov-cox-says-mida-has-had-mission-creep-and-needs-major-reform/",
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          "source_url": "https://utahnewsdispatch.com/2026/08/20/after-data-center-debacle-gov-cox-says-mida-has-had-mission-creep-and-needs-major-reform/",
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          "summary": "Stratos project was originally pitched at up to 9 gigawatts across a 40,000 acre site near the Great Salt Lake",
          "source_url": "https://finance.yahoo.com/technology/ai/articles/kevin-oleary-admits-not-properly-003010592.html",
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          "summary": "O'Leary agreed to cut the project by half to 20,000 acres after public outcry",
          "source_url": "https://moneywise.com/news/top-stories/kevin-oleary-utah-data-center-stratos-project-backlash",
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          "summary": "The project was initially proposed at 40,000 acres",
          "source_url": "https://moneywise.com/news/top-stories/kevin-oleary-utah-data-center-stratos-project-backlash",
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          "summary": "Box Elder County commissioners passed a 180 day moratorium on new data centers and data center power plants on unincorporated county land, which county officials said does not apply to the Stratos project area under MIDA's land use authority.",
          "source_url": "https://www.upr.org/utah-news/2026-06-17/box-elder-data-center-moratorium-stratos",
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          "status": "permitting",
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          "planned": false,
          "source_date": null,
          "summary": "Box Elder County Attorney Stephen R. Hadfield rejected three referendum applications, finding the commission's resolutions were administrative actions that cannot be referred to voters under Utah law.",
          "source_url": "https://utahnewsdispatch.com/2026/05/28/box-elder-county-data-center-referendum-denied/",
          "source_tier": 4
        },
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          "status": "permitting",
          "effective_at": "2026-05-23",
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          "planned": false,
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          "summary": "Hundreds of people rallied on the Utah Capitol steps demanding a halt to the project, with speakers raising air quality, greenhouse gas and water supply concerns.",
          "source_url": "https://utahnewsdispatch.com/2026/05/23/hundreds-demand-halt-on-box-elder-data-center-plan/",
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          "status": "permitting",
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          "date_basis": "content",
          "planned": false,
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          "summary": "The second water right change application for the project, filed by Murray Hollow L.C., was withdrawn by a notice dated May 22 that gave no reason, after nearly 700 protest letters had been filed against it.",
          "source_url": "https://www.ksl.com/article/51503347/second-water-rights-request-withdrawn-for-embattled-box-elder-county-data-center-proposal",
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          "status": "permitting",
          "effective_at": "2026-05-14",
          "date_basis": "content",
          "planned": false,
          "source_date": null,
          "summary": "Demonstrators rallied at the Utah Capitol and delivered a letter signed by about 6,000 people asking Governor Spencer Cox to take binding action on the Great Salt Lake and the project.",
          "source_url": "https://www.sltrib.com/news/2026/05/14/photos-utahns-urge-cox-stop-box/",
          "source_tier": 4
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          "status": "permitting",
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          "summary": "The Box Elder Accountability Referendum filed two referendum applications to put the county commission's approval before voters, which would require 5,422 signatures in 45 days if the applications were accepted.",
          "source_url": "https://www.fox13now.com/news/local-news/box-elder-county/group-files-application-to-challenge-box-elder-county-data-center-approval",
          "source_tier": 4
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          "status": "permitting",
          "effective_at": "2026-05-08",
          "date_basis": "content",
          "planned": false,
          "source_date": null,
          "summary": "Kevin O'Leary told CNN that developers had invested about 20 million dollars, would seek letters of intent from tenants and further investment for a project that could cost more than 100 billion dollars, and aimed to have the first gigawatt operating within two years.",
          "source_url": "https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/09/tech/ai-data-center-utah-kevin-oleary-opposition",
          "source_tier": 4
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          "status": "permitting",
          "effective_at": "2026-05-05",
          "date_basis": "content",
          "planned": false,
          "source_date": null,
          "summary": "The first water right change application for the project, filed by the landowner to move water from irrigation to industrial use, was withdrawn, and the company said it would refile with additional supporting information.",
          "source_url": "https://www.upr.org/utah-news/2026-05-19/box-elder-data-center-protest",
          "source_tier": 4
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          "status": "approved",
          "effective_at": "2026-05-04",
          "date_basis": "content",
          "planned": false,
          "source_date": null,
          "summary": "Box Elder County commissioners voted unanimously for two resolutions consenting to a Military Installation Development Authority project area for a 40,000 acre data center campus with its own natural gas power plant, at a special meeting attended by about 1,100 people.",
          "source_url": "https://utahnewsdispatch.com/2026/05/04/box-elder-commissioners-approve-data-center/",
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